Pheidole victima

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 majors.

Nomenclature

 *  victima. Pheidole lignicola var. victima Santschi, 1929d: 290 (s.) BRAZIL. Raised to species: Wilson, 2003: 533.

Description
From Wilson (2003): DIAGNOSIS Similar to Pheidole tarchon and Pheidole tetrica, differing as follows.

Major: dark reddish-yellow; all of dorsal surface of head, including occiput but excluding frontal triangle and midclypeus, carinulate; carinulae originating on frontal lobes spread outward, away from the midline; in dorsal-oblique view propodeum descends to metanotal groove by a short, steep face; postpetiole from above oval; anterior third of promesonotal dorsum carinulate; all of head and mesosoma foveolate and opaque.

Minor: unknown.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Lectotype major: HW 0.94, HL 0.96, SL 0.62, EL 0.12, PW 0.42.

COLOR Major: concolorous dark reddish yellow.



'''Figure. Lectotype, major. Scale bars = 1 mm.'''

Type Material
- as reported in Wilson (2003)

Type Locality Information
BRAZIL: Rio Negro, Paraná. (Wilson 2003)

Additional References
Santschi, F. 1929d. Nouvelles fourmis de la République Argentine et du Brésil. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 107: 273–316.

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