Pheidole sperata Forel, 1915

Katsuyuki Eguchi, Bui Tuan Viet, Emiko Oguri & Seiki Yamane, 2016, The first discovery of the “ Pheidole quadricuspis group ” in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1), pp. 45-55 : 53

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Pheidole sperata Forel, 1915 View in CoL

Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) sperata Forel, 1915: 29 View in CoL -31.

Type material examined: MHNG; Indonesia, Sumatra, Simalur, Sinabang; E. Jacobson leg.; ii/1913 [4 syntypes (2 majors, 2 minors), type images: CASENT0907770 and CASENT0907771 of AntWeb (http://www.antweb. org/)].

Nontype material examined: ACEG; Indonesia, West Java, Mt. Halimon, F. Ito leg. [FI96-259, -297, -283, -302; FI98-309], M. Kawamura leg. [No. 161; No. 10/16a (Accession No. LC 020540 View Materials : voucher specimen No. Ext20130524-3)].

Distinction from P. leloi: In the major, ventrolateral face of vertexal lobe weakly and finely rugoso-punctate; lateral face of promesonotal dome, mesopleuron, metapleuron and dorsal face of propodeum punctate; first gastral tergite finely punctate over the surface or in anterior half to two thirds. In the minor, dorsum of mesosoma sparsely with relatively short standing hairs; dorsal faces of head and promesonotal dome punctate but not overlain with rugae; petiolar node in lateral view blunt at apex, and in posterior view not emarginate at apex.