Eurhopalothrix depressa Ketterl, Verhaag & Dietz, 2004

Longino, John T., 2013, A review of the Central American and Caribbean species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species, Zootaxa 3693 (2), pp. 101-151 : 118

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3693.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:46D89ABD-850E-45AE-A978-DDEF689F2EC9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6158560

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DB87F7-003B-9F32-FF60-FCD973E6FB23

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Plazi

scientific name

Eurhopalothrix depressa Ketterl, Verhaag & Dietz, 2004
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Eurhopalothrix depressa Ketterl, Verhaag & Dietz, 2004

Eurhopalothrix depressa Ketterl, Verhaag & Dietz, 2004: 45 , figs. 23. Holotype worker: Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, São Francisco de Paula, Araucaria forest reserve Pró-Mata, 29°30'S 50°10'W, 3 Apr 1997, in leaf litter of an Araucaria forest (J. Ketterl) [MZSP] (not examined). Paratypes: 2 workers from same locality [LPB, SMNK]; 1 worker and 2 queens, São Paulo: Cunha, Pico de Macela, 23°08'S 44°48'W, 21-22 Apr 2001 (A. A. Tavares & R. R. Silva) [MZSP].

Geographic range. Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo).

Comments. This is a highly distinctive species, one of only two New World species with a transverse ridge on the frons, the other species being E. cimu from Cuba. Eurhopalothrix depressa has 16 erect spatulate setae on the face; E. cimu has none.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Eurhopalothrix

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Eurhopalothrix

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