Pheidole calimana

The type material was found in a rotten stick in a lowland rainforest.

Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.

Distribution
Only known from the type locality.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Colombia.

Worker
Minor

Nomenclature

 *  calimana. Pheidole calimana Wilson, 2003: 175, figs. (s.w.) COLOMBIA.

Description
Major: distinguished in the diligens group by small size, slender body form, and especially by a smooth and shiny pronotum and weak foveolation and feebly shiny to subopaque intercarinular spaces on the head.

Minor: in particular head foveolate and propodeum dentate, as opposed to head smooth and shining and propodeum rounded in cataractae.

Major and minor: propodeal spines reduced to denticles.

Close to Pheidole cataractae, with differences in the propodeal spine and cephalic sculpturing as illustrated.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.92, HL 0.94, SL 0.72, EL 0.14, PW 0.44. Paratype minor: HW 0.44, HL 0.54, SL 0.70, EL 0.12, PW 0.30.

COLOR Major: gaster light to medium brown; rest of body and appendages brownish yellow.

Minor: concolorous dark yellow.



'''Figure. Holotype, major. (Minor not figured.) Scale bars = 1 mm.'''

Type Material
COLOMBIA: Mun. Buenaventura (Bajo Calima), Valle, col. William L. Brown and Richard B. Root.

Etymology
Named after the geographical origin of the type colony.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Wilson E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.