Pheidole lucretii

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 319

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6274867

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/323CB366-5232-41C3-632B-F742B09769C2

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scientific name

Pheidole lucretii
status

 

Pheidole lucretii View in CoL   HNS Santschi

Pheidole lucretii   HNS Santschi 1923d: 45.

Types Naturhist. Mus. Basel.

Etymology Eponymous.

diagnosis A member of the " jujuyensis   HNS complex" of the larger fallax   HNS group, comprising araneoides   HNS , cuevasi   HNS , durionei   HNS , jujuyensis   HNS , kugleri   HNS , leonina   HNS , leptina   HNS , lucretii   HNS , lupus   HNS , paraensis   HNS , punctithorax   HNS , tijucana   HNS , wallacei   HNS , and wolfringi   HNS . P. lucretii   HNS is distinguished as follows.

Major: head quadrate; antennal scape just attaining the occipital border; space from eyes to antennal fossae, and all of the posterior dorsal half of the head, including the occiput, rugoreticulate; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; anterior fourth of central strip of first gastral tergite shagreened. Minor: unknown.

measurements (mm) Major: HW 1.54, HL 1.54, SL 1.12, EL 0.24, PW 0.84.

color Major: head, mesosoma, and appendages medium reddish brown; waist and gaster plain medium brown.

range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Unknown.

figure Lectotype, major. BRAZIL: Blumenau, Santa Catarina. (Minor unknown.) Scale bar = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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