Pheidole guajirana, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 431

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6276178

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scientific name

Pheidole guajirana
status

new species

Pheidole guajirana   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Named after the northernmost region of Colombia, origin of the type series.

Diagnosis Somewhat similar in various traits to the Nearctic species casta   HNS , mera   HNS , and tysoni   HNS , and easily distinguished as follows. Major: posterior half of dorsal head profile flat; eye set well forward on head, pearl-shaped, with anterior end tapered slightly; head bicolored; dorsum of promesonotum covered with faint longitudinal carinulae, and foveolate; petiolar node tapered at apex; postpetiole from above diamond-shaped.

Minor: eye set well forward on head; occiput broad, its margin weakly concave; all of head, mesosoma, and petiole foveolate. Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.70, HL 0.78, SL 0.34, EL 0.10, PW 0.36. Paratype minor: HW 0.40, HL 0.44, SL 0.32, EL 0.06, PW 0.26.

color Major: most of body medium brown (mesosoma tending to dark brown), and anterior one-sixth of head capsule, and appendages, brownish yellow.

Minor: body medium brown, appendages brownish yellow.

Range Known from collections made at elevations to 200 m in several localities in Guajira and Magdalena, Colombia, as well as a series from the Caracarai Road 20 km northeast of Manaus, Brazil.

Biology Found in or near rainforest, variously in sand and, in one instance, a rotten log in beach sand.

Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. COLOMBIA: Puente Bomba, near Dibulla, Guajira (William L. and Doris E. Brown). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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