Octostruma petiolata Mayr

Longino, John T, 2013, A revision of the ant genus Octostruma Forel 1912 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), Zootaxa 3699, pp. 1-61 : 47

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3699.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6160191

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scientific name

Octostruma petiolata Mayr
status

 

Octostruma petiolata Mayr , 1887

(Fig 44)

Rhopalothrix petiolata Mayr 1887: 580. Holotype queen: Brazil, Santa Catarina [NMW?] (not examined). Description of worker: Emery 1894: 217. Combination in Octostruma : Brown 1949: 92. See also Brown & Kempf, 1960: 182.

Geographic range. Southern Brazil.

Comments. This species is known from southern Brazil. Workers can be identified by the combination of strongly transverse petiolar node in dorsal view, mesosoma lacking erect setae, large size (HW 0.85-0.90), and strong laminar transverse carina joining the propodeal spines. I examined a worker from Itajubâ, Santa Catarina State [MCZC].

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Octostruma

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