Pheidole aequiseta
Pheidole aequiseta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Pheidole |
Species: | P. aequiseta |
Binomial name | |
Pheidole aequiseta Santschi, 1923 |
Nothing is known about the biology of aequiseta.
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: Bolivia (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. |
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. |
Biology
Castes
Images from AntWeb
Lectotype of Pheidole aequiseta. Worker. Specimen code casent0913259. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
Only known from minor worker.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- aequiseta. Pheidole aequiseta Santschi, 1923d: 57 (w.) BOLIVIA. See also: Wilson, 2003: 262.
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 fallax group, with minor similar to that of Pheidole gouldi and Pheidole tolteca (major of aequiseta unknown), differing as follows.
Major: unknown.
Minor: slender; occiput drawn into a neck with nuchal collar; propodeal spine reduced to obtuse angle; pilosity over all of body abundant, short, and erect, and of roughly equal length; all of head, mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque; anterior third of central strip of first gastral tergite shagreened; petiolar and postpetiolar nodes in side view low; postpetiole as a whole almost cylindrical.
MEASUREMENTS (mm) Lectotype minor: HW 0.60, HL 0.88, SL 1.24, EL 0.20, PW 0.48.
COLOR Minor: concolorous light reddish brown, almost “orange.”
Figure. Lectotype, minor. (Major unknown.) Scale bars = 1 mm.
Type Material
BOLIVIA: San José, Santa Cruz. Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel - as reported in Wilson (2003)
Etymology
L aequiseta, even-haired. (Wilson 2003)
References
- Santschi, F. 1923d. Pheidole et quelques autres fourmis néotropiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 63: 45-69 (page 57, worker described)
- Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. (page 262, fig. minor described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Kusnezov N. 1953. La fauna mirmecológica de Bolivia. Folia Universitaria. Cochabamba 6: 211-229.
- Santschi F. 1923. Pheidole et quelques autres fourmis néotropiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 63: 45-69.