Pheidole kuna

This species is only known from type specimens, collected in rainforest. (Wilson 2003)

Identification
See the description in the nomenclature section.

Distribution
Only known from the type locality.

This taxon was described from Panama.

Description
A very small, bicolorous member of the flavens group close to flavens, with which it may be synonymous, and Pheidole tayrona, distinguished from both in the major, which has a distinctive bicolorous body and angulate mesonotum. See also Pheidole breviseta, Pheidole hizemops, Pheidole lignicola, Pheidole micon and Pheidole tenebra.

MEASUREMENTS (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.68, HL 0.74, SL 0.40, EL 0.08, PW 0.34. Paratype minor: HW 0.36, HL 0.40, SL 0.34, EL 0.06, PW 0.24.

COLOR Major and minor: gaster and postpetiole light brown; rest of body and appendages reddish yellow.



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

Type Locality Information
PANAMA: Nusagandi, San Blas Province (Leeanne E. Tennant-Alonso).

Etymology
Kuna, Amerindian tribe of the San Blas region.