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Pheidole tisiphone
| Pheidole tisiphone | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. tisiphone |
| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole tisiphone Wheeler, W.M., 1911
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Nothing is known about the biology of tisiphone.
Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Known only from two workers and one soldier from Oaxaca, Mexico, and one soldier from Guatemala.
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 15.1653° to 15.16527778°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Guatemala, Mexico (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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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- tisiphone. Pheidole tisiphone Wheeler, W.M. 1911h: 203 (s.) MEXICO. Combination in P. (Elasmopheidole): Emery, 1915i: 190. See also: Wilson, 2003: 632.
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): DIAGNOSIS A large member of the scrobifera group, with a bizarre major instantly recognizable by shield-shaped head in full-face view, with the frontal lobes expanded laterally to touch the lateral margins of the head at the level of the eyes and behind it and extended anteriorly almost to touch the anterior clypeal border; by the very dense, long hairs covering the entire head, with those around the region of the eye curving posteriorly; and by the deep, narrow antennal scrobes. The mesonotum is rugoreticulate in the Guatemalan specimen, and mostly carinulate in the unique holotype, but otherwise the two specimens are very close.
MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.80, HL 2.16, SL 0.76, EL 0.20, PW 1.00.
COLOR Major: body light reddish brown, appendages light reddish to yellowish brown.
Figure. Major. GUATEMALA: San Jose (E. S. Ross, in Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard). Compared with holotype. Scale bars = 1 mm.
Type Material
Almoloya, Oaxaca, Mexico, col. Frederick Knab. National Museum of Natural History - as reported in Wilson (2003)
Etymology
Tisiphone, Avenger of Murders, one of the Furies of Greek mythology. (Wilson 2003)
References
Wheeler, W. M. 1911. Three new ants from Mexico and Central America. Psyche (Camb.) 18: 203-208.
Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Text and images from this publication used by permission of the author.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
- Fernandes, P.R. XXXX. Los hormigas del suelo en Mexico: Diversidad, distribucion e importancia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
- Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
- Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133
- Wilson, E.O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Genus. Harvard University Press