Eurhopalothrix apharogonia Snelling, 1968

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 : 112

Eurhopalothrix apharogonia Snelling, 1968

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Eurhopalothrix apharogonia Snelling, 1968: 1 . Holotype worker: El Salvador, 4 miles north of Quetzaltepec, 7 Jul 1961 (M. E. Irwin) [UCDC] (not examined). Paratype worker: same data as holotype [LACM].

Geographic range. El Salvador.

Comments. This species is still known only from the types. Reported measurements are HW 0.84, HL 0.93, SL 0.53. If the illustration in Snelling (1968) is accurate, it has a very unusual head shape, with very reduced lateral angles (CI 90, one of the lowest values for New World Eurhopalothrix ). Specialized setae on the face are highly reduced, to a tight square of 4 spatulate setae on the posteromedian vertex (this tight square also found on E. sepultura , E. speciosa , but these with additional setae elsewhere). It is also similar to E. floridana , which has even more reduced facial setae (2 on medial vertex margin) and a somewhat similar head shape.

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FIGURE 35. Distribution maps of Eurhopalothrix species, Central American region.