identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
4F0AD86EDD10BAD48186BD9D7D5829EB.text	4F0AD86EDD10BAD48186BD9D7D5829EB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole bureni	<div><p>Pheidole bureni <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181647" title="Lookup 'Pheidole bureni' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>types Florida State Collection of Arthropods; Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>etymology Named after the collector, the late American myrmecologist William F. Buren.</p><p>Diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group distinguished by the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: scape flattened at base; head in side view narrowed, its posterior dorsal surface flat; in full-face view, occipital border deeply concave and occipital lobes subangulate; propodeal spines long and vertical to propodeal dorsal face; pronotum transversely carinulate; mesosoma and waist completely foveolate and opaque; pilosity very sparse.</p><p>Minor: all of body foveolate and opaque except gaster, which is smooth and shiny; carinulae mesad to eyes extend to occiput. measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.50, HL 1.58, SL 0.80, EL 0.24, PW 0.76. Paratype minor: HW 0.72, HL 0.80, SL 0.80, EL 0.20, PW 0.48.</p><p>Color Major: bicolorous, with all of body reddish yellow except gaster, which is medium to dark reddish brown. Range Known only from the type locality. Biology Unknown.</p><p>Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype minor. TEXAS: Alice, Jim Wells Co., southern Texas (William F. Buren). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4F0AD86EDD10BAD48186BD9D7D5829EB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
ECCED3DCCE2C63238F2D7C38B1FF120B.text	ECCED3DCCE2C63238F2D7C38B1FF120B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole coracina	<div><p>Pheidole coracina <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181648" title="Lookup 'Pheidole coracina' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology L coracina <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181648" title="Lookup 'coracina' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, raven-like, alluding to color of the minor worker.</p><p>Diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group characterized in the major by dense rugoreticula that stretch from each eye to the adjacent antennal fossa; bilobed dorsal-oblique profile of the pronotum; oval postpetiole from above; most of the prothorax and all of the mesothorax, propodeum, and waist foveolate and opaque; and a contrasting circular brown spot on the vertex.</p><p>Minor: blackish brown; pronotal profile bilobed in dorsal-oblique view; and all of body foveolate and opaque except venter of head, median half of the dorsal surface of the head, part of the promesonotum, and the gaster.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.20, HL 1.24, SL 0.68, EL 0.18, PW 0.60.</p><p>Paratype minor: HW 0.60, HL 0.66, SL 0.70, EL 0.14, PW 0.40.</p><p>Color Major: body light reddish brown except for gaster, which is plain medium brown, and a dark brown circular spot on the vertex.</p><p>Minor: concolorous blackish brown. Range Known only from the type series. Biology Unknown.</p><p>Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: 19 km north of Estado Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi (William P. MacKay). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/ECCED3DCCE2C63238F2D7C38B1FF120B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
69699FCADAA0EDAF7C650CE7781AA158.text	69699FCADAA0EDAF7C650CE7781AA158.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole crassicornis Emery	<div><p>Pheidole crassicornis Emery <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'Pheidole crassicornis Emery' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span></p><p>Pheidole crassicornis Emery <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'Pheidole crassicornis Emery' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> 1895d: 296.</p><p>Types Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova; possibly also Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard (see Figure caption above). Etymology L crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, thick horn, referring to the expanded basal part of the antennal scape. diagnosis a member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group distinguished by the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: thickened basal portion of scape strongly curved toward the insertion, as illustrated; pilosity very sparse, usually almost absent from the head and gaster; humerus subangulate in dorsal-oblique view; pronotal dorsum marginally carinulate. Minor: all of dorsal surface of head except middle of clypeus and frontal triangle, as well as all of mesosoma and waist, foveolate and opaque.</p><p>See also diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, porcula <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33938" title="Lookup 'porcula' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, subporcula <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:228862" title="Lookup 'subporcula' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, tetra <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'tetra' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, and vallicola <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:34080" title="Lookup 'vallicola' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Major (Belmont, North Carolina): HW 1.30, HL 1.30, SL 0.78, EL 0.20, PW 0.64. Minor (Belmont, North Carolina): HW 0.62, HL 0.74, SL 0.84, EL 0.10, PW 0.44. color Major: concolorous brownish yellow. Minor: concolorous yellowish brown.</p><p>Range North Carolina to northern Florida and west to western Texas.</p><p>Biology In northern Florida, Naves (1985) found the species sympatric with diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, nesting in deep soil in forest clearings. The inconspicuous nest openings were never surrounded by craters of excavated soil of the kind common in other soil-dwelling species of Pheidole <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24885" title="Lookup 'Pheidole' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, and the vertical galleries ran at least 60 cm deep. Minors and occasionally majors foraged 4 meters or more from the nest entrances, and minors were observed retrieving live termites and small dead arthropods. In western Texas, Moody and Francke (1982) found colonies at 100-1700 m, nesting under stones and in open soil.</p><p>Figure Upper: major. Lower: minor. NORTH CAROLINA: Belmont, Gaston Co., near Charlotte. (Labeled to species by Carlos Emery and likely part of his type series; the type locality is Charlotte.) Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/69699FCADAA0EDAF7C650CE7781AA158	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
4545D173B9D2BD01A3439699EC393B8C.text	4545D173B9D2BD01A3439699EC393B8C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole diversipilosa Wheeler	<div><p>Pheidole diversipilosa Wheeler <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'Pheidole diversipilosa Wheeler' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span></p><p>Pheidole crassicornis var. diversipilosa Wheeler <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:142252" title="Lookup 'Pheidole crassicornis var. diversipilosa Wheeler' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> 1908h: 467. Raised to species level by Naves 1985: 61. Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology L diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, different (variable) hair, alluding to the major.</p><p>diagnosis Very close to crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> from which it differs in the major by abundant pilosity on the mesosoma and gaster, and tetra <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'tetra' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, from which it differs in the major by the much shorter pilosity on the first gastral tergite and by sparseness or absence of pilosity on the waist and occiput.</p><p>Also resembles pilosior <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181652" title="Lookup 'pilosior' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> and porcula <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33938" title="Lookup 'porcula' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> in various traits as depicted.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.26, HL 1.34, SL 0.66, EL 0.20, PW 0.66. Paralectotype minor: HW 0.66, HL 0.74, SL 0.76, EL 0.16, PW 0.46. color Major and minor: body medium reddish brown, appendages light reddish brown. Range Southwestern Texas to the mountains of southern and central Arizona.</p><p>Biology According to Stefan Cover (personal communication), diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> is common at mid-elevations (1050-1900 m), favoring oak-pine-juniper forests, especially those in creek valleys, where it nests under rocks and in open soil. Colonies have single queens and large populations, which can exceed 1000 workers. Seed caches have been found in some nests.</p><p>Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. TEXAS: Ft. Davis, southwestern Texas (W. M. Wheeler). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4545D173B9D2BD01A3439699EC393B8C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
157DCAB548522C659794D2035D5A891F.text	157DCAB548522C659794D2035D5A891F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole erethizon	<div><p>Pheidole erethizon <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181649" title="Lookup 'Pheidole erethizon' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>etymology NL erethizon <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181649" title="Lookup 'erethizon' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, porcupine, referring to the very long, bristly pilosity of the major and minor.</p><p>Diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group characterized in both the major and minor by exceptionally dense, long hair (reaching an extreme in the gastral pilosity of the major); and entire head (except frontal triangle and central piece of clypeus), mesosoma, and waist foveolate and opaque. In addition, the minor is unusual within the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group in possessing a narrowed occiput seen in full-face view, yet nevertheless lacking a nuchal collar.</p><p>measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.26, HL 1.34, SL 0.92, EL 0.22, PW 0.64.</p><p>Paratype minor: HW 0.58, HL 0.70, SL 0.86, EL 0.16, PW 0.42.</p><p>color Major: concolorous medium yellow with a very slight reddish tinge.</p><p>Minor: concolorous medium yellow.</p><p>range Recorded from the type locality (Michoacan); Azizintla, Guerrero; and Miacatlan, Morelos.</p><p>biology Unknown.</p><p>figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: San Jose Purua, Michoacan (A. b. Hamton). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/157DCAB548522C659794D2035D5A891F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
569135DF3EB3D652E5442890FBD8C2A0.text	569135DF3EB3D652E5442890FBD8C2A0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole fariasana	<div><p>Pheidole fariasana <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181650" title="Lookup 'Pheidole fariasana' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology Named after the type locality.</p><p>diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group distinguished by the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: medium to dark brown; rugoreticulum of head limited to small patches immediately mesad to each eye; posterior half of head capsule smooth and shiny; anterior strip of pronotal dorsum transversely carinulate, remainder of promesonotal dorsum smooth and shiny; postpetiole from above diamond-shaped; pilosity dense and long, especially on gaster.</p><p>Minor: dark brown with brownish yellow tarsi, posterior half of head capsule smooth and shiny; anterior strip of pronotal dorsum transversely carinulate, rest of pronotum smooth and shiny; occiput broad. Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.00, HL 1.04, SL 0.82, EL 0.18, PW 0.54. Paratype minor: HW 0.60, HL 0.68, SL 0.80, EL 0.14, PW 0.40.</p><p>Color Major: head, lower half of pronotum, and appendages medium brown; remainder of body dark brown. Minor: body dark, almost blackish brown; tarsi brownish yellow; rest of appendages light to medium brown. range Known only from the type locality. Biology Unknown.</p><p>Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: 1.5 km east of Gomez Farias, Tamaulipas, 425 m (Robert J. Hamton). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/569135DF3EB3D652E5442890FBD8C2A0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
A3577AE7BEDD80F02F62213975C28C2A.text	A3577AE7BEDD80F02F62213975C28C2A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole guerrerana	<div><p>Pheidole guerrerana <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181651" title="Lookup 'Pheidole guerrerana' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology Named after the Mexican state of origin.</p><p>Diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group distinguished by the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: rugoreticulum mesad to the eyes very extensive, reaching from near the posterior clypeal border to midway between the eye and occiput; pilosity very dense and long, especially on the dorsal surfaces of the head and on the gastral tergites; anterior strip of pronotal dorsum transversely carinulate; postpetiole from above diamond-shaped.</p><p>Minor: pilosity extremely long over most of the body; humerus subangulate in dorsal-oblique view; occiput narrowed, with rudiment of a nuchal collar.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.28, HL 1.42, SL 1.02, EL 0.24, PW 0.66. Paratype minor: HW 0.58, HL 0.74, SL 0.94, EL 0.20, PW 0.42.</p><p>Color Major: head indistinctly bicolorous, with capsule anterior to eye level yellow and remainder yellowish brown; mesosoma and appendages yellowish brown; waist and gaster plain light brown.</p><p>Minor: indistinctly bicolorous, with head capsule posterior to anterior margin of eye as well as gaster and postpetiolar dorsum light brown; remainder of body dark yellow to brownish yellow. Range Known only from the type locality.</p><p>Biology The nest of the type colony was beneath a rock in a forest clearing. A winged queen was present on 31 July.</p><p>Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: at road 3.5 km below Omilteme, Guerrero, 2000 m (Cornell University Field Party). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A3577AE7BEDD80F02F62213975C28C2A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
6F95A54E5706A6AB647210F388B69F01.text	6F95A54E5706A6AB647210F388B69F01.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole pilosior	<div><p>Pheidole pilosior <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181652" title="Lookup 'Pheidole pilosior' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology L pilosior <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181652" title="Lookup 'pilosior' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, hairier.</p><p>diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group, similar to crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, porcula <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33938" title="Lookup 'porcula' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, tetra <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'tetra' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, and vallicola <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:34080" title="Lookup 'vallicola' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, and differing in the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: reddish to dark brown; rugoreticulum of head forms a broad swath from eye to frontal carinae; pilosity very dense, forming a thick fringe of short hairs around the head and a thick mat of hairs of short to medium length on the first gastral tergite; petiolar node in side view tapered to a blunt point at the apex; postpetiolar node laterally acute-angulate; basal segment of scape 2X broader than distal segment.</p><p>Minor: dark brown; posterior dorsal half of head and promesonotal dorsum smooth and shiny. Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.54, HL 1.58, SL 0.86, EL 0.20, PW 0.76. Paratype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.68, SL 0.74, EL 0.14, PW 0.38.</p><p>color Major: head rich medium reddish brown, with broad area of vertex covering central half of head capsule dark brown; body dark brown; legs medium brown.</p><p>Minor: most of body and antennae dark, almost blackish brown; lateral wings of clypeus and legs medium brown. Range Known only from the type locality.</p><p>biology The type colony was collected by Cover in a heavily grazed creek floodplain forest, nesting beneath a stone in shade.</p><p>Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. TEXAS: Limpia Canyon creekbed, Davis Mts., Jeff Davis Co., southwestern Texas (Stefan Cover). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F95A54E5706A6AB647210F388B69F01	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
B5C6EEE84FA392C144A5F4FCAC9A307D.text	B5C6EEE84FA392C144A5F4FCAC9A307D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole pinicola	<div><p>Pheidole pinicola <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181653" title="Lookup 'Pheidole pinicola' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>etymology l pinicola <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181653" title="Lookup 'pinicola' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, pine-dweller, based on habitat of type colony.</p><p>diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group distinguished by the following combination of traits. Major: occiput, frontal triangle, and central piece of clypeus smooth and shiny, area between frontal carinae and eyes heavily rugoreticulate, and rest of dorsal surface of head longitudinally carinulate; all of mesosoma, waist, and anterior half of central strip of gastral tergite foveolate and opaque; pronotal dorsum transversely carinulate; pronotal profile in dorsal-oblique view bilobous. Minor: all of head, mesosoma, and waist, and most of the first gastral tergite foveolate and opaque; anterior strip of pronotal dorsum transversely rugulose; mandibles and tarsi dark yellow.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.30, HL 1.30, SL 0.80, EL 0.20, PW 0.66. Paratype minor: HW 0.66, HL 0.76, SL 0.80, EL 0.16, PW 0.46.</p><p>color Major: head and appendages light reddish brown; rest of body medium reddish brown. Minor: body medium reddish brown, mandibles and tarsi dark yellow.</p><p>Range Known only from the type locality.</p><p>Biology The type series were collected in pine forest.</p><p>Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: pine forest, km 225 on Highway 85, Hidalgo (Cornell University Mexico Field Party 1965). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B5C6EEE84FA392C144A5F4FCAC9A307D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
582891A1C6309D0C93D1437C84417BB9.text	582891A1C6309D0C93D1437C84417BB9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole porcula Wheeler	<div><p>Pheidole porcula Wheeler <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33938" title="Lookup 'Pheidole porcula Wheeler' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span></p><p>Pheidole crassicornis subsp. porcula Wheeler <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:142505" title="Lookup 'Pheidole crassicornis subsp. porcula Wheeler' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> 1908h: 466. Raised to species level by Creighton 1950a: 187.</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard; Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.</p><p>Etymology L porcula <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33938" title="Lookup 'porcula' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, little pig-like.</p><p>diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group close to crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, tetra <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'tetra' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, and vallicola <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:34080" title="Lookup 'vallicola' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, differing from these species in the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: yellow; rugoreticulum on head stretches from frontal carinae obliquely upward posterior to level of eye but does not reach the eye; pilosity dense, in full-face view fringing the head and on the first gastral tergite forming a very short, uniform felt; humerus subangulate; postpetiole from above oval, not angulate; scape at widest part of basal portion is 2X widest part of distal portion; pronotum smooth and shiny except for anterior fringe, which is carinulate.</p><p>Minor: posterior half of head completely smooth and shiny, pronotum sparsely foveolate, feebly shiny; propodeal spines reduced to denticles.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.58, HL 1.60, SL 0.92, EL 0.20, PW 0.78. Paralectotype minor: HW 0.60, HL 0.74, SL 0.84, EL 0.12, PW 0.40. Color Major: concolorous yellow. Minor: concolorous light reddish brown.</p><p>Range Chisos Mts. of the Big Bend of southwestern Texas to the vicinity of Abilene and San Angelo, central Texas; probably also occurs in upland Chihuahua.</p><p>Biology Near San Angelo, Texas, Stefan Cover (unpublished notes) found a nest in a grassy flat, in clayey soil beneath a rock. Moody and Francke (1982) found numerous colonies in western Texas at 100-1700 m, nesting variously under stones, logs, cow dung, and under wood and fragments of metal, as well as in open soil.</p><p>Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. TEXAS: Chisos Mts., Big Bend of southwestern Texas (O. W. Williams). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/582891A1C6309D0C93D1437C84417BB9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
E43D05A07D701F7D2C7D16FF88B85377.text	E43D05A07D701F7D2C7D16FF88B85377.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole spathicornis	<div><p>Pheidole spathicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181654" title="Lookup 'Pheidole spathicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> new species</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology L spathicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181654" title="Lookup 'spathicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, broad-bladed horn, referring to the scape.</p><p>diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group, most resembling guerrerana, and differing from that and other species of the group by the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: rugoreticulum on head extends mesad to eye anteriorly half way to the anterior genal border and posteriorly nearly halfway to the occipital borders; a loosed, ladder-like rugoreticulum also extends along the midline of the dorsal surface of the head capsule from the occiput halfway to the frontal triangle; pilosity very long and dense; postpetiole from above oval, not laterally angulate. Minor: humerus in dorsal-oblique view subangulate; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; petiolar node from side tapers to a point; occiput broad, and nuchal collar absent.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.26, HL 1.38, SL 0.82, EL 0.18, PW 0.64. Paratype minor: HW 0.60, HL 0.75, SL 0.80, EL 0.14, PW 0.40. Color Major: concolorous reddish yellow.</p><p>Minor: head and gaster plain light brown; mesosoma, waist, and appendages yellowish brown.</p><p>Range Known only from the type locality.</p><p>Biology Unknown.</p><p>figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: Villa Santiago, Cola de Caballo, Morelos (Francisco Perez d.). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E43D05A07D701F7D2C7D16FF88B85377	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
1F4005EB13C1ACD2CCCC77F465492EFE.text	1F4005EB13C1ACD2CCCC77F465492EFE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole tetra Creighton	<div><p>Pheidole tetra Creighton <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'Pheidole tetra Creighton' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, new status</p><p>Pheidole crassicornis subsp. tetra Creighton <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:151245" title="Lookup 'Pheidole crassicornis subsp. tetra Creighton' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> 1950a: 176, first available use of Pheidole crassicornis subsp. porcula var. tetra Wheeler <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:228865" title="Lookup 'Pheidole crassicornis subsp. porcula var. tetra Wheeler' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> 1908h: 467, unavailable name (quadrinomial).</p><p>Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology Gr tetra <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'tetra' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, four, significance unknown.</p><p>Diagnosis Very close to crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, from which it differs in the major by its generally abundant pilosity, and diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, from which it differs in the longer pilosity on the first gastral tergite and abundant hairs on the waist and occiput. Also resembles porcula <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33938" title="Lookup 'porcula' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> in various traits as depicted.</p><p>Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.34, HL 1.36, SL 0.72, EL 0.20, PW 0.66. Paralectotype minor: HW 0.66, HL 0.74, SL 0.74, EL 0.14, PW 0.44. Color Major and minor: concolorous light to dark reddish brown.</p><p>Range Known from St. Louis Co., Missouri; Ouachita Mts., Montgomery Co., Arkansas; central and western Texas; and the mountains of southern Arizona at 1280-1580 m.</p><p>Biology In the Ouachita Mts. of Arkansas, Stefan Cover (unpublished field notes) found colonies at three localities in open areas of mixed pine-hardwood forest, nesting beneath rocks. At the Pedernales Falls State Park, Blanco Co., Texas, he found two colonies under rocks in grassy clearings, nesting in sandy soil; and in Cochise Co., Arizona, Cover discovered a colony in cottonwood floodplain forest, apparently nesting in open soil. In western Texas, Moody and Francke (1982) found tetra <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'tetra' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> at 400-1600 m, nesting variously under stones and logs and in open soil.</p><p>Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. TEXAS: Austin (W. M. Wheeler). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F4005EB13C1ACD2CCCC77F465492EFE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
73BE72C73760558D3A105507F1B72FD3.text	73BE72C73760558D3A105507F1B72FD3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pheidole vallicola Wheeler	<div><p>Pheidole vallicola Wheeler <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:34080" title="Lookup 'Pheidole vallicola Wheeler' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span></p><p>Pheidole crassicornis subsp. vallicola Wheeler <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:241662" title="Lookup 'Pheidole crassicornis subsp. vallicola Wheeler' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> 1915b: 409. Raised to species level by Creighton 1950a: 191. Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</p><p>Etymology L vallicola <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:34080" title="Lookup 'vallicola' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, valley dweller, referring to the habitat of the type colony.</p><p>diagnosis A member of the crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> group, similar to crassicornis <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33688" title="Lookup 'crassicornis' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, diversipilosa <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33716" title="Lookup 'diversipilosa' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, porcula <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33938" title="Lookup 'porcula' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, and tetra <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181655" title="Lookup 'tetra' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span>, but differing by the following combination of traits.</p><p>Major: pilosity consisting of sparse, very long hairs (some on first gastral tergite are 2X the maximum eye length); head in side view tapered toward occiput; rugoreticulum forms a broad swath from antennal fossa to eye on each side; carinulae along midline of dorsum of head continue to occiput; pronotum sparsely foveolate and feebly shining on sides, smooth and shiny on dorsum; postpetiole from above laterally subangulate.</p><p>Minor: petiolar node from side thin, and tapered toward apex; pilosity sparse, as illustrated; dorsum of head (except for frontal triangle and middle section of clypeus), all of mesosoma, and most of waist foveolate and opaque. Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.34, HL 1.44, SL 0.80, EL 0.20, PW 0.64. Paralectotype minor: HW 0.64, HL 0.70, SL 0.82, EL 0.14, PW 0.44.</p><p>color Major: body light reddish brown except for gaster, which is a slightly contrasting medium reddish brown. Minor: concolorous medium reddish brown.</p><p>Range Recorded by Stefan Cover in numerous collections at 1200-1900 m in the following mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona: Chiricahua, Dragoon, Huachuca, Pajarito, Pinal, and Sierra Ancha.</p><p>Biology Stefan Cover (unpublished collection notes) found vallicola <span><sup><a href="https://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.lsid_entry?lsid=urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:34080" title="Lookup 'vallicola' at Hymenoptera Name Server">HNS</a></sup></span> to favor creek banks and open woodland with a wide range of species composition, from ponderosa pine to oak, pine-oak-juniper, and oak-mesquite-sumac. Nests were usually under stones in either shade or exposed areas, although occasionally they had been constructed in open soil.</p><p>Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. ARIZONA: Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mts., southeastern Arizona (W. M. Wheeler). Scale bars = 1 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/73BE72C73760558D3A105507F1B72FD3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Wilson, E. O.	Wilson, E. O. (2003): Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, URL: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=20017
