Pheidole alticola

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 Colombia.

Description
A medium-sized, brown member of the flavens group with contrasting yellow legs. Very similar to Pheidole euryscopa , which occurs at the same locality, and especially in its large, forward-placed eye and curved, backward-directed propodeal spines, but differing in the major in important details of pronotal form and sculpturing, extent of smooth area at and forward of the occiput, and in color.

See also the less similar Pheidole albipes, Pheidole ebenina, Pheidole hazenae, Pheidole hedlundorum, Pheidole lustrata, Pheidole monteverdensis, Pheidole palenquensis and Pheidole servilia.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.84, HL 1.00, SL 0.48, EL 0.14, PW 0.42. Paratype minor: HW 0.52, HL 0.58, SL 0.50, EL 0.10, PW 0.34.

COLOR Major and minor: body medium brown, appendages dark yellow.



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

Type Locality Information
COLOMBIA: Parque Nacional Cuevas de las Guacheros, 10 km southeast of Palestina, 1900–2000 m, col. Charles Kugler and J. Hahn.

Etymology
L alticola, dweller of high places, alluding to the type locality.

Additional References
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