Rasopone titanis, Longino, John T. & Branstetter, Michael G., 2020

Longino, John T. & Branstetter, Michael G., 2020, Phylogenomic Species Delimitation, Taxonomy, and ‘ Bird Guide’ Identification for the Neotropical Ant Genus Rasopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Insect Systematics and Diversity 4 (2), No. 1, pp. 1-33 : 27

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/isd/ixaa004

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0DE2398D-199F-40A7-8207-91148630CD76

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847160

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/45C28494-5557-4A5C-B5AB-47DDA5074965

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:45C28494-5557-4A5C-B5AB-47DDA5074965

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Rasopone titanis
status

sp. nov.

Rasopone titanis New Species

( Fig. 13 View Fig ; Supp Fig. S33 [online only])

HOLOTYPE: 1 worker, Mexico, Chiapas, Ocosingo , 16.906 −92.099 ±?, 2-vi-1969, around waterfall, ex sifted leaf litter, J. M. Campbell [ MCZC, unique specimen identifier MCZ-ENT00716640 ] GoogleMaps . PARATYPES: same data as holotype [1 worker, UNAM, MCZ-ENT00716641 ; 1 worker, USNM, MCZ- ENT00716642 ; 1 worker, MCZC, MCZ-ENT00716659 ] GoogleMaps .

Geographic range. Mexico (Chiapas).

Diagnosis

Mandible smooth; anterior clypeal margin sinuous; side of head lacking erect setae; petiolar node tapering. Differing from R. rupinicola ( Fig. 13 View Fig ; Supp Figs. S30 and S31 [online only]) in more robust mesosoma and more tapering petiolar node.

Measurements, worker: HW 1.67, HL 1.80, SL 1.45, PTL 0.64, PTH 1.09, CI 93, SI 87, PTI 58 (n = 1).

Comments

This species is known from one series of four workers. The locality is simply ‘Ocosingo’ and there is no habitat or microhabitat information. It is one of the largest species in the genus.

UNAM

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Rasopone

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