Pheidole hoelldobleri

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Pheidole hoelldobleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: P. hoelldobleri
Binomial name
Pheidole hoelldobleri
Wilson, 2003

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Specimen Label

Longino (1997) states that hoelldobleri “occurs in wet forest habitats, either in the canopy of mature forest or in small trees of young second growth, where it nests opportunistically in cavities in live stems, and in the forks of small trees. It may use accretal soil as nest material.” He obtained specimens by fogging in the canopy of the forest of the La Selva Biological Station, as well as from guava (Psidium) and Cecropia trees along roads and in pastures.

Identification

See the description in the nomenclature section.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Costa Rica (Longino 1997)

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 10.35° to 10°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (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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Worker. Specimen code casent0635476. Photographer J. Longino, uploaded by University of Utah.

Nomenclature

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

  • hoelldobleri. Pheidole hoelldobleri Wilson, 2003: 195, figs. (s.w.) COSTA RICA.

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

Description

A bicolorous member of the diligens group whose majors have angulate humeri; thin propodeal spines; long, sparse pilosity; rugoreticulum mesad to the eyes; and shagreened anterior fourth of the first gastral tergite. Close to Pheidole coffeicola, but differing in color and many details of sculpturing as shown. Also scan somewhat less similar Pheidole aculifera (in the fallax group), Pheidole insipida, Pheidole plebecula, Pheidole pubiventris, Pheidole sicaria, Pheidole spilota, Pheidole variegata (= Pheidole pubiventris), Pheidole venatrix and Pheidole zelata.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.24, HL 1.24, SL 0.94, EL 0.20, PW 0.56. Paratype minor: HW 0.70, HL 0.86, SL 1.06, EL 0.14, PW 0.44.

COLOR Major: bicolorous, with gaster dark, almost blackish brown and rest of body and appendages dark reddish yellow.

Minor: bicolorous, with gaster medium brown, rest of body and appendages dark brownish yellow.


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Figure. Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

COSTA RICA: Rio Peñas, Alajuela, 950 m, col. J. T. Longino. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

Etymology

Named in honor of the distinguished biologist and student of Costa Rican ants Bert Hölldobler.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics