Pheidole tenerescens Wheeler
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20017 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6276375 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/86D9C211-7F32-7613-5BC8-A9951FFD8D59 |
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Donat |
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Pheidole tenerescens Wheeler |
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Pheidole tenerescens Wheeler View in CoL HNS
Pheidole tenerescens Wheeler HNS 1922e: 7.
Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.
etymology Presumably from L tener, soft, alluding to the relatively feeble sculpture.
Diagnosis As represented by the major, a small, yellow member of the flavens HNS group with prominent, rounded humerus that rises well above the mesonotum in dorsal-oblique view; a nearly perfectly semicircular outline of promesonotum in side view; a deep, circular metanotal groove with vertical anterior propodeal face in dorsal-oblique view; short pilosity; and mostly smooth, shiny body. Similar to nitidicollis HNS , but lacking a mesonotal convexity in side view, with shorter cephalic carinulae, smaller propodeal spiracle and spine, and yellow as opposed to medium brown gaster.
See also the less similar arhuaca HNS , flavifrons HNS , minutula HNS , and other species listed as close to arhuaca HNS (q.v.).
Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.74, HL 0.80, SL 0.34, EL 0.10, PW 0.40.
Color Major: concolorous yellow.
range Known only from the holotype major.
biology Collected by sweeping vegetation (Roland Thaxter).
FIGURE Unique holotype, major. TRINIDAD: Port of Spain (Roland Thaxter). Scale bar = 1 mm.
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