Pheidole glomericeps

This species is only known from type specimens. These were collected at a bait in a subterranean trap, col. W. P. MacKay.

Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.

Distribution
Known from the type locality and from near Turrialba, Cartago Prov., Costa Rica, 550 m. (Wilson 2003)

This taxon was described from Mexico.

Description
Similar in various traits to Pheidole exigua, Pheidole moffetti, Pheidole nana, Pheidole nuculiceps, Pheidole orbica, Pheidole rudigenis, Pheidole sculptior and Pheidole styrax, differing as follows.

Major: outline of head in full-face view circular; antennal scrobes present, anterior fourth of pronotal dorsum, as well as space between eye and antennal fossa, rugoreticulate; promesonotal profile elevated and strongly convex; mesonotal convexity subangulate in side view; petiolar node tapered at apex to a blunt point; postpetiole from above trapezoidal; almost all of mesosoma foveolate.

Minor: eye small and elliptical; promesonotal profile semicircular; occiput broad and weakly concave; petiolar node tapers to point at apex; all of head and mesosoma foveolate.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.80, HL 0.80, SL 0.44, EL 0.10, PW 0.38. Paratype minor: HW 0.40, HL 0.44, SL 0.42, EL 0.04, PW 0.24.

COLOR Major and minor: concolorous yellow.



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

Type Locality Information
MEXICO: 10 km south of Palenque, Chiapas, col. William P. MacKay.

Etymology
L glomericeps, spherical head.

Additional References
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