Echinopla cf. pseudostriata Donisthorpe, 1943

Zettel, Herbert & Laciny, Alice, 2015, Contributions to the taxonomy of the ant genus Echinopla Smith, 1857 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62 (1), pp. 101-121 : 118

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Echinopla cf. pseudostriata Donisthorpe, 1943

Material examined.

5 workers (ZCW) from the Philippines, Cebu Province, Cebu Island, Dalaguete, Mantalungon, 19.II.2012, leg. C. V. Pangantihon (CP406).

Notes.

Donisthorpe (1943) described Echinopla pseudostriata based on two syntype workers, one from Sulawesi, Indonesia, and one from Luzon, the Philippines. The studied specimens from Cebu Island differ considerably from the Sulawesi syntype illustrated by Antweb (2015), especially by the more regularly and finely striate sculpture of the mesosoma. Nevertheless we preliminarily identify them as Echinopla cf. pseudostriata , because the species identity and type locality should be fixed by the designation of a lectotype, and the sculptural variability should be examined in more specimens.