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Pheidole minensis
| Pheidole minensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. minensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole minensis Santschi, 1923
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Nothing is known about the biology of minensis.
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: Brazil (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. |
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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 minensis. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0922380. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
    
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| Lectotype of Pheidole aberrans minensis. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0922386. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
      
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| Syntype of Pheidole aberrans minensis. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0922393. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
Known only from Majors.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- minensis. Pheidole (Elasmopheidole) aberrans var. minensis Santschi, 1923d: 64 (s.q.m.) BRAZIL. Raised to species: Wilson, 2003: 137.
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): Major: reddish yellow; frontal lobes very broad, in full-face view spread laterally almost to the margins of the head, and their smoothly lobose anterior edges just reaching the anterior margin of the clypeus; except for the frontal triangle, the entire dorsal surface of the head carinulate; transverse carinulae originating on each corner of the occiput dip obliquely to meet at the midline of the head, reaching anteriorly to nearly halfway to the eye level.
Minor: unknown.
MEASUREMENTS (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.58, HL 2.00, SL 0.60, EL 0.20, PW 0.94.
COLOR Concolorous reddish yellow.
Figure. Lectotype, major. Minor unknown. Scale bars = 1 mm.
Type Material
BRAZIL: Pirapora, Minas Gerais. Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel - as reported in Wilson (2003)
Etymology
Named after the Brazilian state of origin. (Wilson 2003)
References
- Santschi, F. 1923d. Pheidole et quelques autres fourmis néotropiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 63: 45-69 (page 64, soldier, queen, male described)
- Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
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).
- Santschi F. 1923. Pheidole et quelques autres fourmis néotropiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 63: 45-69.