Pheidole ceibana Wilson, 2003, new species
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Description
Pheidole ceibana new species
Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.
Etymology Pertaining to Ceiba, near the type locality.
diagnosis Similar to dentigula, harrisonfordi, lemnisca, metallescens, peltastes, perkinsi, renae, ruida, tayrona, and xyston, differing as follows.
Major: very small; brown with pale yellow appendages; promesonotum smoothly semicircular in profile; heavily rugoreticulate
occiput; and unstriped gaster.
Minor: head smooth, almost entirely sculpture-free.
measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.64, HL 0.70, SL 0.38, EL 0.10, PW 0.34.
Paratype minor: HW 0.36, HL 0.40, SL 0.38, EL 0.08, PW 0.22.
color Major and minor: body medium brown, appendages pale yellow.
Range Known only from the type locality.
Biology Collected from a piece of rotting wood on a steep, forested slope.
Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. HONDURAS: 13 km south of La Ceiba, Atlantida Department, 130 m (W. L. Brown). Scale bars = 1 mm.
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- Is part of
- Book: http://publication.plazi.org/id/F98D6505470580F46DE05FCEDB0DECC1 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/7B021B87F907998A3760B1EDCA39CE2A (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/100119421 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Pheidole
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- ceibana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pheidole ceibana Wilson, 2003