Pheidole eidmanni

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Pheidole eidmanni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: P. eidmanni
Binomial name
Pheidole eidmanni
Menozzi, 1926

Nothing is known about the biology of eidmanni.

Identification

See the description in the nomenclature section.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Only known from the type locality.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -23.5167° to -23.5167°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Brazil (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Worker

Minor

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Pheidole eidmanniWorker. Specimen code casent0913305. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • eidmanni. Pheidole eidmanni Menozzi, 1926c: 69, fig. 1 (s.w.) BRAZIL. See also: Wilson, 2003: 289.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

From Wilson (2003): A member of the fallax group, similar in different characters to Pheidole bergi, Pheidole cordiceps, Pheidole nitidula and Pheidole pampana, and especially so with Pheidole nitidula, with which it may be synonymous, and distinguished as follows.

Major: concavity of occipital border very broad in frontal view; rugoreticulum less extensive on genae (than in nitidula); in dorsaloblique view, humerus lower than convexity that follows it; pronotum completely smooth and shiny.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.06, HL 1.08, SL 0.64, EL 0.20, PW 0.56.

COLOR Major: body concolorous medium reddish brown.


Pheidole eidmanni Wilson 2003.jpg

Figure. Lectotype, major. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

BRAZIL: Mogidas-Cruzes, São Paulo. Istituto di Entomologia "Guido Grandi" - as reported in Wilson (2003)

Etymology

Named after the entomologist H. Eidmann. (Wilson 2003)

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Kempf W. W. 1978. A preliminary zoogeographical analysis of a regional ant fauna in Latin America. 114. Studia Entomologica 20: 43-62.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Menozzi C. 1926. Neue Ameisen aus Brasilien. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 69: 68-72.