Pheidole weiseri

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Pheidole weiseri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: P. weiseri
Binomial name
Pheidole weiseri
Santschi, 1923

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Specimen Labels

Nothing is known about the biology of weiseri.

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: Argentina (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

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Pheidole aberrans weiseriQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0922372. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Pheidole aberrans weiseriWorker. Specimen code casent0922373. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Lectotype of Pheidole aberrans weiseriWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0922387. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Pheidole aberrans weiseriMale (alate). Specimen code casent0922388. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

  • weiseri. Pheidole (Elasmopheidole) aberrans st. weiseri Santschi, 1923d: 64 (s.w.q.) ARGENTINA. Raised to species: Wilson, 2003: 142.

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 aberrans group, closest to Pheidole minensis and Pheidole obscurifrons.

Major: light yellow; frontal lobes seen from the side form prominent lobes that only partly overhang the clypeus; seen from above, the lobes are broad, and subangular at their anterior tips, which extend to within an Eye Length of the anterior clypeal border; tips of frontal lobes smooth, which surfaces are succeeded posteriorly by a broad band of carinulae, and this gives way at eye level to a smooth area that extends all the way to the occiput; pronotal profile semicircular; faint carinulae line the lower pronotal margin.

Minor: pronotum covered by semicircular carinulae, and mesopleuron by foveolae and longitudinal carinulae.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.42, HL 1.64, SL 0.58, EL 0.18, PW 0.84. Paralectotype minor: HW 0.80, HL 0.80, SL 0.58, EL 0.12, PW 0.48.

COLOR Major: concolorous light reddish yellow.

Minor: body light brown, appendages brownish yellow.


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Figure. Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

ARGENTINA: Pucapampa, near Santa Catalina, Jujuy. Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel - as reported in Wilson (2003)

Etymology

Eponymous. (Wilson 2003)

References

  • Santschi, F. 1923d. Pheidole et quelques autres fourmis néotropiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 63: 45-69 (page 64, soldier, worker, queen described)
  • Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. (page 142, fig. major, minor described; Raised to species)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Kusnezov N. 1978. Hormigas argentinas: clave para su identificación. Miscelánea. Instituto Miguel Lillo 61:1-147 + 28 pl.
  • Rosa da Silva R. 1999. Formigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) do oeste de Santa Catarina: historico das coletas e lista atualizada das especies do Estado de Santa Catarina. Biotemas 12(2): 75-100.