Pheidole bruchi

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Pheidole bruchi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: P. bruchi
Binomial name
Pheidole bruchi
Forel, 1914

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Specimen Labels

Nothing is known about the biology of bruchi.

Identification

See the description in the nomenclature section.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Kempf (1972b) lists bruchi from Buenos Aires, Córdova, Misiones, Salta, and Tucumán in Argentina. (Wilson 2003)

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -22.809943° to -26.808285°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Argentina (type locality), Paraguay.

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

Nomenclature

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

  • bruchi. Pheidole bruchi Forel, 1914d: 274 (s.w.) ARGENTINA. See also: Wilson, 2003: 668.

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 Known to me only from a syntype minor, as illustrated (syntype majors could not be located in the Forel Collection). Closest to and possibly the same as Pheidole ambigua (q.v.). Distinguished in the minor caste by the sparse pilosity; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; narrowed occiput with nuchal collar; and the pattern of sculpturing, including the absence of carinulae on the mesosoma.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Syntype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.66, SL 0.74, EL 0.12, PW 0.34.

COLOR Minor: concolorous medium brown, appendages a slightly contrasting yellowish brown.


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Figure. Syntype, minor. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

ARGENTINA: Rosário de la Frontera, Salta. Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève minors only, syntype majors could not be located - as reported in Wilson (2003)

Etymology

Named in honor of the Argentine entomologist Carlos Bruch. (Wilson 2003)

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Cuezzo, F. 1998. Formicidae. Chapter 42 in Morrone J.J., and S. Coscaron (dirs) Biodiversidad de artropodos argentinos: una perspectiva biotaxonomica Ediciones Sur, La Plata. Pages 452-462.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Kusnezov N. 1952. El género Pheidole en la Argentina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 12: 5-88.
  • Santschi F. 1931. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Argentine. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina. 112: 273-282.
  • Vittar, F. 2008. Hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de la Mesopotamia Argentina. INSUGEO Miscelania 17(2):447-466
  • Wild, A. L. "A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Zootaxa 1622 (2007): 1-55.