Pheidole incisa

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 711

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275480

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pheidole incisa
status

 

Pheidole incisa View in CoL   HNS Mayr

Pheidole incisa   HNS Mayr 1870a: 401.

Types Naturhist. Mus. Wien.

Etymology L incisa   HNS , cut into, probably alluding to the sharp descent of the mesonotum.

diagnosis Similar in various respects but not close to the species listed in the heading above.

Major: in side view the mesonotum descends in a vertical face to the metanotum, which may bear a very small convexity; head anterior to posterior margin of eye partly carinulate and rest of body smooth and shiny; humerus in dorsal-oblique view rounded or subangulate; propodeal spines equilaterally triangular.

Minor: head and body almost completely smooth and shiny; promesonotal profde almost perfectly semicircular; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; postpetiolar node from side low, and from above oval.

Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.52, HL 1.56, SL 0.90, EL 0.22, PW 0.70.

Paralectotype minor: HW 0.66, HL 0.74, SL 0.78, EL 0.12, PW 0.44.

color Major and minor: concolorous brownish yellow.

Range Known only from Colombia, evidently montane.

Biology A series collected by W. L. and d. E. Brown between Mosquera and La Mesa, Cundinamarca, Colombia, were above 2000 m, in low montane forest.

figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype minor. (Type locality: "New Grenada," Greater Colombia.) Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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