Pheidole macromischoides, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 718

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275494

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scientific name

Pheidole macromischoides
status

new species

Pheidole macromischoides   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

etymology L macromischoides   HNS , like Leptothorax   HNS (= Macromischa   HNS ).

Diagnosis Major: unknown.

Minor: medium-sized brown member of the tristis   HNS group with long, straight, needle-like propodeal spines; low postpetiolar node, promesonotum smoothly rounded in profde; humerus with low subangle in dorsal-oblique view; bell-shaped postpetiole; broken transverse carinulae covering pronotal dorsum; and dorsa of head and mesosoma foveolate and opaque.

Similar to the minor workers of alayoi   HNS , bakeri   HNS , cubaensis   HNS , and naylae   HNS of Cuba and androsana   HNS of the Bahamas, differing in many details of body form, sculpturing, and pilosity, as illustrated, and color.

measurements (mm) Holotype minor: HW 0.62, HL 0.68, SL 0.76, EL 0.12, PW 0.44.

Color Minor: concolorous medium brown, with appendages a shade lighter.

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Foraging during the day on a limestone block about 2 meters high at side of the road 15 meters from a cliff of a magote, one of the limestone outcroppings at Los Acostas (this one was behind the "new" Rancho de San Vicente, west of the road, as of 1953). The workers looked and moved like the distinctive Leptothorax   HNS workers of species formerly placed in the synonymous Macromischa   HNS , which were abundant on and around the mogotes (E. O. Wilson).

Figure Holotype, minor. (Major unknown.) CUBA: Los Acostas, Pinar del Rio (E. O. Wilson). Scale bar = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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