Pheidole fowleri

From Wilson (2003): Collected in savanna (cerrado) at Morrinhos Junction and rocky forest near Goiania, col. W. L. Brown.

Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.

Distribution
Known only from type locality in Mato Grosso; and from Goiania and Morrinhos Junction, Goiás. (Wilson 2003)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil.

Nomenclature

 *  fowleri. Pheidole fowleri Wilson, 2003: 191, figs. (s.w.) BRAZIL.

Description
A member of the diligens group distinguished as follows.

Major and minor: yellow; propodeal spines directed backward in side view, forming a 135-degree angle with the basal propodeal face; entire head, mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque.

Major: carinulae on head do not reach beyond level of eye, and are absent on the mesal half of the frontal lobes; hairs on entire profile of first gastral sternite short and subappressed; almost all of central strip of gastral tergites shagreened.

Minor: all of head, mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque; anterior half of central strip of first gastral tergite shagreened; in dorsal-oblique view, anterior face of propodeal dorsum drops precipitously to metanotum.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.00, HL 1.04, SL 0.66, EL 0.18, PW 0.52. Paratype minor: HW 0.50, HL 0.54, SL 0.60, EL 0.14, PW 0.34.

COLOR Major: concolorous reddish yellow.

Minor: concolorous plain dark yellow.



'''Figure. Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. Scale bars = 1 mm.'''

Type Material
BRAZIL: Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, col. James C. Trager.

Etymology
Named after the prominent Brazilian myrmecologist H. G. Fowler.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Neves F. S., R. F. Braga, M. M. do Espirito-Santo, J. H. C. Delabie, G. Wilson Fernandes, and G. A. Sanchez-Azofeifa. 2010. Diversity of Arboreal Ants In a Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest: Effects Of Seasonality and Successional Stage. Sociobiology 56(1): 1-18.
 * Ulyssea M. A., and C. R. F. Brandao. 2013. Ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the seasonally dry tropical forest of northeastern Brazil: a compilation from field surveys in Bahia and literature records. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 57(2): 217224.
 * Ulysséa M. A., C. R. F. Brandão. 2013. Ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the seasonally dry tropical forest of northeastern Brazil: a compilation from field surveys in Bahia and literature records. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 57(2): 217-224.