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Pheidole macromischoides
| Pheidole macromischoides | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. macromischoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole macromischoides Wilson, 2003 | |
From Wilson (2003): Foraging during the day on a limestone block about 2 meters high at side of the road 15 meters from a cliff of a magote, one of the limestone outcroppings at Los Acostas (this one was behind the "new" Rancho de San Vicente, west of the road, as of 1953). The workers looked and moved like the distinctive Leptothorax workers of species formerly placed in the synonymous Macromischa (Temnothorax), which were abundant on and around the mogotes.
Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Only known from the type locality.
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 22.85° to 22.8°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Cuba (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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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Castes
Known only from the minor.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- macromischoides. Pheidole macromischoides Wilson, 2003: 718, figs. (w.) CUBA.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
DIAGNOSIS Major: unknown.
Minor: medium-sized brown member of the tristis group with long, straight, needle-like propodeal spines; low postpetiolar node, promesonotum smoothly rounded in profile; humerus with low subangle in dorsal-oblique view; bell-shaped postpetiole; broken transverse carinulae covering pronotal dorsum; and dorsa of head and mesosoma foveolate and opaque.
Similar to the minor workers of Pheidole alayoi, Pheidole bakeri, Pheidole cubaensis and Pheidole naylae of Cuba and Pheidole androsana of the Bahamas, differing in many details of body form, sculpturing, and pilosity, as illustrated, and color.
MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype minor: HW 0.62, HL 0.68, SL 0.76, EL 0.12, PW 0.44.
COLOR Minor: concolorous medium brown, with appendages a shade lighter.
Figure. Holotype, minor (Major unknown). Scale bars = 1 mm.
Type Material
CUBA: Los Acostas, Pinar del Rio, col. E. O. Wilson. Museum of Comparative Zoology
Etymology
L macromischoides, like Leptothorax (=Macromischa).
References
- Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. (page 718, fig. minor described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Fontenla J. L., and J. Alfonso-Simonetti. 2018. Classification of Cuban ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) into functional groups. Poeyana Revista Cubana de Zoologia 506: 21-30.
- Reyes J.L. 2005. Inventario de la coleccion de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) del centro oriental de ecosistemas y biodiversidad, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 36: 279-283.
- Reyes, J. L. "Inventario de la colección de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) del Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba." Boletín de la Sociedad Aragonesa 36 (2005): 279-283.