Pheidole rotundiceps

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

Nothing is known about the biology of rotundiceps.

Identification

See the description in the nomenclature section.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Only known from the type locality.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -0.485588° to -0.485588°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Ecuador (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

Known only from the major caste.

Nomenclature

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

  • rotundiceps. Pheidole rotundiceps Wilson, 2003: 744, figs. (s.w.) ECUADOR.

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

Description

DIAGNOSIS A very large, yellow member of the tristis group, similar to Pheidole pepo, Pheidole sphaerica and Pheidole subsphaerica, easily distinguished by the following traits.

Major: head capsule nearly circular in outline; the entire outline of the head in full-face view almost completely devoid of pilosity; entire head posterior to the level of the eye sparsely covered by rows of elongate foveae; postpetiolar node seen from above bluntly cone-shaped.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 2.34, HL 2.24, SL 1.10, EL 0.30, PW 0.98.

COLOR Major: concolorous light reddish yellow (light “orange”).


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Figure. Holotype, major. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Type Material

ECUADOR: Tinalandia, 16 km southeast of Domingo de los Colorados, col. Stewart B. and Jarmila Kukalová-Peck. Museum of Comparative Zoology

Etymology

L rotundiceps, round head.

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.