Published March 31, 2020 | Version v1
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Rasopone

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112,
  • 2. USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Utah State

Description

Rasopone JTL049

(Fig. 9; Supp Fig. S46 [online only])

Geographic range. Colombia.

Diagnosis

Similar to R. lunaris (Fig. 8; Supp Figs. S16–S18 [online only]) in most respects, differing in lack of erect setae on sides of head.

Measurements, worker: HW 1.19, HL 1.30, SL 0.92, PTL 0.52, PTH 0.85, CI 91, SI 77, PTI 61 (n = 1).

Biology

This species is known from one collection from a lowland rainforest site in Amazonian Colombia, from a litter/soil core collected by D. Castro. One worker and one alate queen were examined.

Comments

See under R. lunaris.

Notes

Published as part of Longino, John T. & Branstetter, Michael G., 2020, Phylogenomic Species Delimitation, Taxonomy, and ' Bird Guide' Identification for the Neotropical Ant Genus Rasopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 1-33 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 4 (2) on page 30, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaa004, http://zenodo.org/record/3826703

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Rasopone
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus