Pheidole hirsuta

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Pheidole hirsuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: P. hirsuta
Binomial name
Pheidole hirsuta
Emery, 1896

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Specimen Labels

Identification

See the description in the nomenclature section.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Atlantic and Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica (Longino 1997).

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 10.43333333° to 9.6658426°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (type locality), Guatemala, Panama.

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.

  • hirsuta. Pheidole hirsuta Emery, 1896g: 65 (s.) COSTA RICA. See also: Wilson, 2003: 299.

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 large dark brown (major) or medium reddish brown (minor) member of the fallax group.

Major: a bicolorous head; rugoreticulation extending on either side of the dorsum of the head from its anterior margin to near the occiput, separated by a band of carinulae that originates on the frontal lobes; mesopleuron and side of propodeum covered by longitudinal carinulae; and propodeal spine short and erect.

Minor: bicolorous; completely smooth and shiny except for circular carinulae around the antennal fossae and longitudinal carinulae that cover the mesopleuron and side of propodeum; nuchal collar present.

Similar to Pheidole lourothi, differing in many details of the characters described above.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.96, HL 2.00, SL 1.14, EL 0.26, PW 0.94. Minor: HW 0.64, HL 0.82, SL 1.06, EL 0.14, PW 0.46.

COLOR Major: head bicolorous, mostly medium brown, with anterior one-fourth of capsule, including clypeus, genae anterior to eyes and anterior tips of frontal lobes yellowish brown; rest of body mostly dark brown; appendages light brown.

Minor: blackish brown, with contrasting yellow clypeal lateral wings, mandibles, antennal club, and tarsi.


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Figure. Upper: holotype, major. Lower: minor. COSTA RICA: La Selva Biological Station, near Puerto Viejo, Heredia (E. O. Wilson). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

Jiménez, near Guápiles, Limón. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa - as reported in Wilson (2003)

Etymology

L hirsuta, hairy. (Wilson 2003)

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Longino J. T. L., and M. G. Branstetter. 2018. The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants. Ecography 41: 1-12.
  • Longino J. T., and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient. Ecosphere 2(3): 16pp.
  • Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/