Pheidole jivaro, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 713

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275484

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scientific name

Pheidole jivaro
status

new species

Pheidole jivaro   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Named after the celebrated indigenous Amerindian tribe.

Diagnosis Similar to other members of the " carapuna   HNS complex," listed above.

Major: a low, long convexity emerges from the midclypeus, as illustrated; pilosity long, with a few hairs on mesosomal dorsum over 1.5X Eye Length; mesonotal convexity very low, giving promesonotum in side view a newly smooth semicircular profile, postpetiole from above oval; almost all of posterior third of head smooth and shiny; anterior fringe of pronotum carinulate and most of mesopleuron foveolate.

Minor: occiput narrowed, with nuchal collar; pilosity long, with some hairs on dorsum of head greater than Eye Length. Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.06, HL 1.20, SL 0.60, EL 0.14, PW 0.54. Paratype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.70, SL 0.84, EL 0.14, PW 0.38.

Color Major: body and mandibles brownish yellow, other appendages plain dark yellow.

Minor: head and mesosoma dark brown; waist and gaster light to medium brown; mandibles and tarsi yellow; other appendages brownish yellow.

Range Known from the type locality and from Cerro Campana, Panama, 950 m (A. Newton).

Biology The Cerro Campana series was collected from leaf litter on the floor of rainforest. A winged queen was collected with the type colony on 29 June 1976.

figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. ECUADOR: Misahualli, Napo (C. Tarrant). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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