Pheidole bison
- Dataset
- Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus.
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Formicidae
- genus
- Pheidole
- species
- Pheidole bison
biology_ecology
Biology The type series was collected by Philip S. Ward from a termite nest in savanna.
description
Minor: almost all of head and mesosoma foveolate and opaque; irregular broken rugulae present on posterior dorsal head surface; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; occiput broad, weakly concave. Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.26, HL 1.30, SL 0.76, EL 0.12, PW 0.60. Paratype minor: HW 0.62, HL 0.64, SL 0.64, EL 0.08, PW 0.44. COLOR Major: head dark reddish brown, rest of body medium reddish brown, appendages light reddish brown. Minor: concolorous brownish yellow.
diagnosis
diagnosis A medium-sized member of the tristis group similar to bellatrix, napoensis, and pullula, differing as follows. Major: promesonotum a single massive piece, its dorsal border forming a single convexity that drops vertically at the rear to the metanotum; head entirely covered with longitudinal carinulae except for frontal triangle and central section of clypeus; space between eye and antennal fossa rugoreticulate; petiolar node in side view tapered apically to a blunt point; postpetiolar node from above trapezoidal.
distribution
Range Known only from the type locality.
etymology
etymology L Gr bison, the wisent (European bison), alluding to the massive humped back of the major.
materials_examined
Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype minor. BOLIVIA: La Games, Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, 14 Ã ‚ Â ° 48 ' S 60 o 23 W, 700 m (Philip S. Ward). Scale bars = 1 mm.
Name
- Homonyms
- Pheidole bison