Rhopalothrix plaumanni

Identification
Key to Rhopalothrix workers

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil.

Nomenclature

 *  plaumanni. Rhopalothrix plaumanni Brown & Kempf, 1960: 235, fig. 58 (w.) BRAZIL. Senior synonym of acutipilis: Longino & Boudinot, 2013: 315.
 * acutipilis. Rhopalothrix acutipilis Kempf, 1962b: 28, fig. 28 (q.) BRAZIL. Junior synonym of plaumanni: Longino & Boudinot, 2013: 315.

Longino and Boudinot (2013) - In this study queens were associated with workers for three Central American species. The queens differed from the workers in pilosity and the shape of the face. The queens bore numerous short bristles, which are lacking on the workers, and the worker faces had much stronger grooves and gibbosities. The characteristics of the mandible and labrum were shared between queens and workers. Examination of the figures for R. plaumanni and R. acutipilis, the types of which are from the same locality and by the same collector, suggest that R. acutipilis is the queen of R. plaumanni.

Type Material
Longino and Boudinot (2013):

Holotype, worker: Brazil, Santa Catarina: Nova Teutônia (F. Plaumann), paratype worker at (not examined).

Rhopalothrix acutipilis Holotype, queen: Brazil, Santa Catarina: Nova Teutônia, V-1960 (F. Plaumann) (not examined).