Pheidole goeldii
| Pheidole goeldii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. goeldii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole goeldii Forel, 1895
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This species is only known from type specimens. Nothing is known about its biology.
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Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Only known from the type locality.
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- goeldii. Pheidole goeldii Forel, 1895j: 178 (s.w.) BRAZIL. See also: Wilson, 2003: 429.
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 flavens group, somewhat similar to Pheidole striaticeps of Mexico and Central America, distinguished as follows.
Major: yellow; Head Width equal to Head Length; occipital cleft deep, with subangulate midline cleft; mesonotal convexity apparent in dorsal-oblique view; postpetiole from above diamond-shaped, with right-angular margins; edges of humeri rugoreticulate; propodeal spines half as long as and perpendicular to basal face of propodeum preceding them; edges of humeri rugoreticulate.
Minor: humeri toothed; propodeal spines more than a third as long as and perpendicular to the basal face of the propodeum facing them; occiput narrowed behind; occiput with prominent midline cleft; head, mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque.
MEASUREMENTS (mm) Syntype major: HW 1.00, HL 1.00, SL 0.48, EL 0.12, PW 0.48. Syntype minor: HW 0.50, HL 0.54, SL 0.44, EL 0.08, PW 0.30.
COLOR Major and minor: concolorous yellow.
Figure. Upper: syntype, major. Lower: syntype, minor. Scale bars = 1 mm.
Type Material
BRAZIL: Colônia Alpina, Terasópolis, Rio de Janeiro, col. Emilio A. Goeldi. Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève and Museum of Comparative Zoology - as reported in Wilson (2003)
Etymology
Named in honor of the collector Emilio A. Goeldi. (Wilson 2003)
References
- Forel, A. 1895c. Die Ameisen- und Termitengäste von Brasilien. Anhang. Beschreibung einiger neuer brasilianischer Ameisenarten. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 45: 178-179 (page 178, soldier, worker described)
- Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. (page 429, fig. major, minor described)
