Pheidole confoedusta Wheeler

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 278

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6274779

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scientific name

Pheidole confoedusta Wheeler
status

 

Pheidole confoedusta Wheeler View in CoL   HNS

Pheidole confoedusta Wheeler   HNS 1909b: 233.

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Unknown.

Diagnosis A member of the fallax   HNS group, easily distinguished as follows.

Major: antennal scape exceeding occipital corner by about its own maximum width; vertex and genae carinulate, and sides of dorsum of head from level of ventral eye margin to occiput rugoreticulate; head quadrate; antennal scapes expanded near base; petiolar peduncle in side view very thick, its dorsal profile forming a straight line with the node all the way to the apex; parts of pronotal dorsum and mid-clypeus irregularly rugulose; entire head, mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque; postpetiole from above diamond-shaped and carinulate. Minor: unknown.

Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.30, HL 1.26, SL 1.04, EL 0.24, PW 0.70. Color Major: concolorous light reddish brown.

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Unknown.

figure Lectotype, major. MEXICO: Jalapa, Veracruz (f. Silvestri). (Minor unknown.) Scale bar = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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