Pheidole peckorum, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 628

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6274390

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF18140D-B045-507B-93D2-1D8A635EF6B0

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scientific name

Pheidole peckorum
status

new species

Pheidole peckorum   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Named in honor of the collectors, both distinguished entomologists and field researchers.

diagnosis A strikingly unique species within the scrobifera   HNS group and Pheidole   HNS in general.

Major: anterior two-thirds of the dorsal head surface covered by a dense felt of very short, exactly erect hairs of uniform length; antennal scrobe deep, extending posteriorly past the transverse midline of the head and devoid of sculpturing; head rectangular in fullface view, and all of the anterior three-fourths except the central piece of the clypeus and frontal triangle rugoreticulate. Minor: all of the anterior five-sixths of the head capsule dorsum, including the frontal lobes, rugoreticulate; humerus right-angular in dorsal-oblique view; propodeal spines very long.

Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.04, HL 1.26, SL 0.50, EL 0.12, PW 0.60. Paratype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.56, SL 0.50, EL 0.06, PW 0.34.

Color Major: body medium reddish brown except gaster which is light brown, appendages yellow. Minor: concolorous reddish yellow.

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Unknown.

Figure Upper: holotype, major (22 km southwest of Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador). Lower: paratype, minor (tentatively associated with holotype major; 25 km north of Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador, 1000 m). (Stewart B. Peck and Jarmila Kukalova-Peck.) Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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