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Pheidole aequiseta

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Description

Pheidole aequiseta Santschi

Pheidole aequiseta Santschi 1923d: 57.

types Naturhist. Mus. Basel.

etymology L aequiseta, even-haired.

diagnosis A member of the fallax group, with minor similar to that of gouldi and tolteca (major of aequiseta unknown), differing as follows.

Major: unknown.

Minor: slender; occiput drawn into a neck with nuchal collar; propodeal spine reduced to obtuse angle; pilosity over all of body abundant, short, and erect, and of roughly equal length; all of head, mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque; anterior third of central strip of first gastral tergite shagreened; petiolar and postpetiolar nodes in side view low; postpetiole as a whole almost cylindrical.

Measurements (mm) Lectotype minor: HW 0.60, HL 0.88, SL 1.24, EL 0.20, PW 0.48. color Minor: concolorous light reddish brown, almost "orange."

Range Known only from the type locality.

biology Unknown.

Figure Lectotype, minor. BOLIVIA: San Jose, Santa Cruz. (Major unknown.) Scale bar = 1 mm.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA :Harvard University Press on page 262

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Pheidole
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
aequiseta
Taxon rank
species