Pheidole wolfringi

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 363

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6274954

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pheidole wolfringi
status

 

Pheidole wolfringi View in CoL   HNS Forel

Pheidole wolfringi   HNS Forel 1908h: 374. Raised to species level in this monograph: durionei   HNS .

types Mus. His. Nat. Geneve.

Etymology Eponymous.

diagnosis A member of the " jujuyensis   HNS complex" of the larger fallax   HNS group, comprising araneoides   HNS , cuevasi   HNS , durionei   HNS , jujuyensis   HNS , kugleri   HNS , leonina   HNS , leptina   HNS , lucretii   HNS , lupus   HNS , paraensis   HNS , punctithorax   HNS , tijucana   HNS , wallacei   HNS , and wolfringi   HNS . P. wolfringi   HNS is distinguished as follows.

Major: antennal scape exceeds occipital corner by 2X its own maximum width; posterior two-fifths of dorsal head surface and all of posterior four-fifths of side of head smooth and shiny; carinulae originating laterad to frontal carinae fan outward; rugoreticulum limited on each side of head to small patch near antennal fossa; mesonotal convexity in dorsal-oblique view semicircular; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; pronotum and all of waist foveolate; petiolar node in side view with angulate apex.

Minor: propodeal spines reduced to denticles; pronotum mostly foveolate; occiput constricted into neck, with nuchal collar. measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.20, HL 1.24, SL 1.12, EL 0.22, PW 0.66.

Paralectotype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.76, SL 1.10, EL 0.18, PW 0.42.

color Major: concolorous light brown.

Minor: body light brown, appendages a shade lighter.

Range Kempf (1972b) records wolfringi   HNS from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Biology Unknown.

Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. BRAZIL: Sao Paulo. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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