Pheidole claviscapa
- Dataset
- Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus.
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Formicidae
- genus
- Pheidole
- species
- Pheidole claviscapa
biology_ecology
biology The preferred habitat is evidently cerrado, the tropical savanna of central South America.
description
Minor: head in full-face view elliptical in outline, with nuchal crest; entire head, except frontal triangle, and mesosoma and waist foveolate and opaque; anterior half of first gastral tergite shagreened. Measurements (mm) Major (Anapolis, Brazil): HW 2.10, HL 2.24, SL 1.20, EL 0.26, PW 1.04. Minor (Anapolis, Brazil): HW 0.80, HL 1.04, SL 1.36, EL 0.20, PW 0.62. Color Major and minor: reddish yellow (" orange ") or reddish brown.
diagnosis
diagnosis One of the giant Neotropical species, comparable in size to cephalica and fimbriata of the tristis group (q. v.). Major: very large, Head Width about 2.1 mm; antennal scape broadly swollen and flattened at base; space between eye and antennal fossa rugoreticulate; entire median strip of gaster shagreened.
distribution
Range Recorded from Minas Gerais, Goias, Mato Grosso, and Ceara by Kempf (1972 b). I have seen in addition a series from Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia (P. S. Ward).
etymology
Etymology L Gr claviscapa, " club stem, " referring to the swollen and somewhat flattened base of the antennal scape.
materials_examined
Figure Upper: major; the antennal scape viewed edge-on is depicted next to the frontal view of the head; the upper of the two dorsal-oblique views is of a syntype major. Lower: minor. BRAZIL: Anapolis, Goias (W. Kempf). Compared with syntypes. (Type locality: Pirapora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.) Scale bars = 1 mm.
Name
- Homonyms
- Pheidole claviscapa