Pheidole eparmata

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Pheidole eparmata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: P. eparmata
Binomial name
Pheidole eparmata
Wilson, 2003

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Specimen Labels

Nothing is known about the biology of eparmata.

Identification

See the description in the nomenclature section.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Only known from the type locality.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 10.34833333° to 10.06687°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Venezuela (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

Worker

Minor

Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code jtlc000015287. Photographer M. Pierce, uploaded by University of Utah. Owned by JTLC.

Nomenclature

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

  • eparmata. Pheidole eparmata Wilson, 2003: 684, figs. (s.w.) VENEZUELA.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

DIAGNOSIS Major: somewhat similar to Pheidole subarmata and related species (see under subarmata), but very small, with frontal lobes less extended in side view; shallow antennal scrobes present; head bicolored (see under Color below); eyes set well forward, so that their distance from the anterior genal border is only slightly more than an Eye Length; postpetiole seen from above oval; all of frontal lobes covered by carinulae, which extend more than halfway from level of eyes to level of occiput.

Minor: eye placed well forward on head, such that distance to anterior genal border is less than an Eye Length.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.62, HL 0.76, SL 0.36, EL 0.08, PW 0.34. Paratype minor: HW 0.40, HL 0.44, SL 0.34, EL 0.06, PW 0.24.

COLOR Major and minor: brownish yellow.


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Figure. Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

VENEZUELA: Rancho Grande, Estado Aragua, 1100 m, col. William L. and Doris E. Brown. Museum of Comparative Zoology

Etymology

L eparmata, armed upon or in addition to, in reference to the similarity to subarmata and related species.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.