Pheidole sus Wilson 2003

Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

minor worker lateral view

minor worker face view

Identification

Minor worker: head length 0.70mm, head width 0.71mm, scape length 0.66mm, Webers length 0.98mm (n=1). Head evenly rounded behind, with narrow vertex collar; mesonotal suture absent; propodeal spines short, upturned; face densely punctatorugose; clypeus coarsely rugose; mesosoma entirely reticulate rugose, shiny; gastral dorsum smooth and shiny; dorsal pilosity abundant, short, flexuous; color red.

Range

Costa Rica, Panama. Costa Rica: southern Pacific slope.

Natural History

Inhabits wet forest.

Selected Records

Carara (500m): Winkler sample.

San Vito, Finca La Cruces.

Cerro Campana (Panama).


Page authors:

John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA. longinoj@evergreen.edu

Stefan Cover, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138 USA. scover@oeb.harvard.edu


Date of this version: 8 December 1997
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