Pheidole napoensis

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

Nothing is known about the biology of napoensis.

Identification

See the description in the nomenclature section.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Only known from the type locality.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -1.039° to -1.174563°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Ecuador (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

Known only from the major.

Nomenclature

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

  • napoensis. Pheidole napoensis Wilson, 2003: 725, figs. (s.) ECUADOR.

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

Description

DIAGNOSIS A striking, large member of the tristis complex, similar to Pheidole bellatrix of Colombia and more distantly so to Pheidole pepo, Pheidole rotundiceps, Pheidole sphaerica and Pheidole subsphaerica, variously from Colombia and Ecuador, and distinguished as follows.

Major: promesonotum in side view forms a very large hump towering over the propodeum; antennal scrobes present; humeri very broad and rugoreticulate; postpetiolar node conulate; a patch of rugoreticulum present behind and below the eye. Minor: unknown.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.70, HL 1.70, SL 0.72, EL 0.20, PW 0.92.

COLOR Major: body and mandibles very dark reddish brown, other appendages brownish yellow.


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Figure. Unique holotype, major. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

ECUADOR: 20 kilometers south of Tena, Napo, 600 m, col. Stewart and Jarmila Kukalova-Peck. Museum of Comparative Zoology

Etymology

Named after the Ecuadoran province of origin.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.