Pheidole subreticulata

This species is only known from type specimens. Nothing is known about its biology.

Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.

Distribution
Only known from the type locality.

This taxon was described from Brazil.

Castes
Known only from the major.

Nomenclature

 *  subreticulata. Pheidole nana var. subreticulata Emery, 1894c: 159 (s.w.) BRAZIL. Subspecies of nana: Emery, 1896g: 78. Raised to species: Wilson, 2003: 514.

Description
From Wilson (2003): DIAGNOSIS Similar in various traits to breviscapa, bruchella, micon, nana, and tennantae, differing as follows.

Major: rugoreticulum limited to a very small patch just posterior to the antennal fossa on each side of the head; almost all of the dorsal surface and most of the lateral surfaces of the head, up to and including the occiput, carinulate; center of pronotal dorsum transversely carinulate, and sides weakly and longitudinally carinulate; mesonotal dorsum foveolate with a few broken, very short rugulae; propodeal spines half as long as the propodeal basal face; petiolar node in side view thick near base, tapering toward apex; postpetiole from above diamond-shaped.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Syntype major: HW 0.96, HL 0.96, SL 0.58, EL 0.10, PW 0.46.

COLOR Not recorded.



'''Figure. Syntypes, major, a composite of two specimens from the type series. Minor unknown. Scale bars = 1 mm.'''

Type Material
- as reported in Wilson (2003)

Type Locality Information
BRAZIL: Mato Grosso. (Wilson 2003)

Etymology
L subreticulata, less netlike, evidently referring to the small rugoreticulum on the head. (Wilson 2003)

Additional References
Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica, VI–XVI. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 26: 137–241.

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