Pheidole weiseri, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 142

Pheidole weiseri Santschi, new status

Pheidole (Elasmopheidole) aberrans st. weiseri Santschi 1923d: 64.

Types Naturhist. Mus. Basel.

Etymology Eponymous.

Diagnosis A member of the aberrans group, closest to minensis and obscurifrons .

Major: light yellow; frontal lobes seen from the side form prominent lobes that only partly overhang the clypeus; seen from above, the lobes are broad, and subangular at their anterior tips, which extend to within an Eye Length of the anterior clypeal border; tips of frontal lobes smooth, which surfaces are succeeded posteriorly by a broad band of carinulae, and this gives way at eye level to a smooth area that extends all the way to the occiput; pronotal profile semicircular; faint carinulae line the lower pronotal margin.

Minor: pronotum covered by semicircular carinulae, and mesopleuron by foveolae and longitudinal carinulae.

Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.42, HL 1.64, SL 0.58, EL 0.18, PW 0.84.

Paralectotype minor: HW 0.80, HL 0.80, SL 0.58, EL 0.12, PW 0.48.

Color Major: concolorous light reddish yellow.

Minor: body light brown, appendages brownish yellow.

range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Unknown.

Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. ARGENTINA: Pucapampa, near Santa Catalina, Jujuy. Scale bars = 1 mm.