Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus.
Author
Wilson, E. O.
text
2003
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
book
20017
Pheidole ceibana
new species
Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.
Etymology Pertaining to Ceiba, near the type locality.
diagnosis Similar to
dentigula
,
harrisonfordi
,
lemnisca
,
metallescens
,
peltastes
,
perkinsi
,
renae
,
ruida
,
tayrona
, and
xyston
, differing as follows.
Major: very small; brown with pale yellow appendages; promesonotum smoothly semicircular in profile; heavily rugoreticulate
occiput; and unstriped gaster.
Minor: head smooth, almost entirely sculpture-free.
measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.64, HL 0.70, SL 0.38, EL 0.10, PW 0.34.
Paratype minor: HW 0.36, HL 0.40, SL 0.38, EL 0.08, PW 0.22.
color Major and minor: body medium brown, appendages pale yellow.
Range Known only from the type locality.
Biology Collected from a piece of rotting wood on a steep, forested slope.
Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. HONDURAS: 13 km south of La Ceiba, Atlantida Department, 130 m (W. L. Brown). Scale bars = 1 mm.