Pheidole ademonia

Two series were collected at the type locality in terra firme forest. One was a small group of ants found beneath the bark of a rotten log, the other several strays in soil (Stefan Cover, unpublished notes).

Identification
A small yellow member of the flavens group. Compare with Pheidole infernalis, Pheidole peltastes, Pheidole sospes and Pheidole termitobia.

Distribution
Known from the type locality in Peru and from several series collected at the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.

This taxon was described from Peru.

Description


'''Figure. Holotype Major. Scale Bar = 1mm. '''

Worker
Major

Antennal scrobe present, its surface weakly foveolate; occiput rugoreticulate, with remainder of dorsal head surface longitudinally carinulate; carinulae near the cephalic midline curving inward; promesonotal dorsal profile forms a single high, semicircular curve.

Concolorous medium reddish yellow.

Measurements (mm): Holotype major: HW 0.74, HL 0.80, SL 0.36, EL 0.06, PW 0.34.

Minor

Almost identical to that of Pheidole sospes (see illustration of that species).

Concolorous plain medium yellow.

Measurements (mm): Paratype minor: HW 0.38, HL 0.40, SL 0.34, EL 0.06, PW 0.24.

Type Material
Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Type Locality Information
PERU: Cuzco Amazónico, 15 km northeast of Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios (Stefan Cover and John E. Tobin).

Etymology
Gr ademonia, troubled, distressed.