Adelomyrmex quetzal Longino
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282199 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6168411 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C0DF2B-B920-B507-FF0C-FA79FD5CFF05 |
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Adelomyrmex quetzal Longino |
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sp. nov. |
Adelomyrmex quetzal Longino , sp. nov.
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Type material. Holotype worker. Guatemala, Baja Verapaz: Biotopo Quetzal , 15.21224 −90.21421 ± 50 m, 1750 m, 7 May 2009 ( LLAMA Wa-B- 02-1-39) [ CAS, unique specimen identifier CASENT 0614520]. Paratypes (workers): Guatemala, Baja Verapaz: 4.5km S Purulha, 15.226 −90.2 ± 10 km, 1630 m, 21 May 1991 (R. S. Anderson 91-006) [ ICN, CASENT 0604444], [ INBIO, CASENT 0604450], [ UCD, CASENT 0604453], [ UNAM, CASENT 0604443]; same data but 24 May 1991 (R. S. Anderson 91-019) [ LACM, CASENT 0603653], [ UVGC, CASENT 0603652]; 7.5km S Purulha, 15.2 −90.2 ± 12 km, 1630 m, 26 May 1991 (R. S. Anderson 91-026) [ BMNH, CASENT 0601496], [ EAPZ, CASENT 0601501], [ECOSCE, CASENT 0601495], [ MCZC, CASENT 0627819], [ MZSP, CASENT 0627816], [ USNM, CASENT 0627815].
Geographic range. Guatemala.
Diagnosis. Mandible lacking differentiated basal and masticatory margins; counting from apex, fifth tooth closer to sixth (basal) tooth than to fourth tooth; scape lacking long erect setae projecting above underlying pubescence; gaster dark red brown, concolorous with rest of body (gaster contrastingly yellow in the similar A. mackayi ); metanotal groove not impressed (impressed in A. mackayi ).
Description. Worker. HW 0.67–0.71 (n=6); mandible without differentiated masticatory and basal margins, with six distinct teeth distributed from apex to base, fifth tooth closer to sixth (basal) tooth than to fourth tooth, and with a deep notch between sixth tooth and basal condyle; dorsal surface of mandible with several coarse longitudinal striae and several large piligerous puncta; in full face view, lateral clypeal teeth project from beneath clypeal shelf; lateral clypeal teeth located on anterior (ventral) margin of clypeus and separate from transverse carina that forms clypeal shelf; hypostomal tooth absent; compound eye composed of 11–13 ommatidia; face fully sculptured with longitudinal rugae.
Short anterior face of pronotum well separated from dorsal face by an elevated transverse ruga; dorsal profile of promesonotum and propodeum forming a single arched convexity, metanotal groove not impressed; propodeal spines pronounced, acute; space between propodeal spines a broad concavity without distinct dorsal and posterior faces, smooth and shiny with a few transverse rugae; rest of mesosoma with strong, linear, longitudinal rugae; petiolar and postpetiolar nodes subquadrate with differentiated anterior, dorsal, and posterior faces; petiole and postpetiole coarsely irregularly rugose laterally, transversely rugose dorsally; postpetiole in dorsal view about as long as wide to slightly longer than wide, with straight anterior margin and evenly rounded posterior margin; gastral dorsum smooth and shining.
Scape with abundant long subdecumbent pubescence; clypeus and frontal carinae with long erect setae; posterior and posterolateral margins of head with long erect setae; mid and hind tibia with abundant long subdecumbent setae and 2–3 differentiated erect setae that are longer than width of tibia; in profile, dorsal surfaces of head, mesosoma, and gaster with relatively sparse, long, erect setae; FSH about 0.08, FSI 0.11.
Color dark red brown.
Biology. This species occurs in cloud forest, from 1550–1750 m elevation. It is known from ten different Winkler samples of sifted litter, from two regions of Guatemala.
Etymology. Referring to the type locality.
CAS |
California Academy of Sciences |
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Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural |
UCD |
University of California, Davis |
UNAM |
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
LACM |
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
UVGC |
Collecion de Artropodos |
EAPZ |
Escuela Agricola Panamericana |
MZSP |
Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo |
USNM |
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History |
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