Pheidole breviscapa ^HNS Forel, new status

Pheidole flavens var. breviscapa ^HNS Forel 1899e: 77. Types Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve.

Etymology L breviscapa ^HNS, short-stemmed, alluding to the length of the antennal scapes.

diagnosis A marginal member of the " flavens ^HNS complex" within the larger flavens ^HNS group, comprising asperithorax ^HNS, breviscapa ^HNS, bruchella ^HNS, caracalla ^HNS, exigua ^HNS, flavens ^HNS, orbica ^HNS, and sculptior ^HNS. Distinguished in the major (the only caste known) by the combination of high, smooth convex, semicircular profde of the promesonotum; rudimentary, shallow antennal scrobes, whose surface is foveolate and opaque; presence of a small patch of rugoreticulum between the eye and antennal fossa; dorsum of head covered by longitudinal carinulae all the way to the occiput; sides of pronotum smooth and shiny, with remainder of mesosoma foveolate and opaque; and propodeal spines well developed and directed posteriorly.

Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.72, HL 0.72, SL 0.34, EL 0.08, PW 0.38.

Color Major: yellow.

Range Known only from the type locality.

biology Unknown.

Figure Unique holotype, major. GUATEMALA: Retalhuleu. (Minor unknown.) Scale bar = 1 mm.