Pheidole nubicola, Wilson, E. O., 2003
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3508512 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/816D5054-A1AB-73BB-E70B-636CC6310451 |
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Pheidole nubicola |
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new species |
Pheidole nubicola HNS new species
Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.
etymology L nubicola HNS , cloud-dweller, referring to the mountain habitat of the type colony.
diagnosis A member of the fallax HNS group similar to cielana HNS of Mexico and inca HNS of Peru, distinguished as follows.
Major: frontal lobes, sides of head, most of vertex, and pronotal dorsum rugoreticulate; median ocellus present; antennal scape attains occipital border; head bicolored (see Color below).
Minor: all of head, mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque; pronotal dorsum rugoreticulate; midclypeus with scattered short rugulae; occiput strongly constricted but lacks nuchal collar.
measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.18, HL 1.20, SL 0.96, EL 0.20, PW 0.62. Paratype minor: HW 0.64, HL 0.74, SL 0.94, EL 0.16, PW 0.42.
color Major: body medium brown; head bicolored, with anterior fourth dark yellow (except for clypeus and frontal triangle, which are medium brown); appendages dark yellow.
Range Known from the type locality, and from the La Perla-Rancho Somecla road on Mt. Orizaba, Veracruz, 1800-2000 m (E. O. Wilson).
Biology This species occurs in transitional tropical-temperate cloud forest. One colony collected at Rancho Cielo by P. S. Ward was in a rotten log. Another I found on Mt. Orizaba was under a large rock in hardwood forest dominated by Liquidambar and Carpinus, with a Cyafhea-melastome understory. Winged queens were present in a nest at Rancho Cielo on 23 July.
figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: Rancho del Cielo, Sierra de Guatemala, Tamaulipas, 1070 m (Cornell University Expedition group, 1965). Scale bars = 1 mm.
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