Pheidole ceibana ^HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Pertaining to Ceiba, near the type locality.

diagnosis Similar to dentigula ^HNS, harrisonfordi ^HNS, lemnisca ^HNS, metallescens ^HNS, peltastes ^HNS, perkinsi ^HNS, renae ^HNS, ruida ^HNS, tayrona ^HNS, and xyston ^HNS, differing as follows.

Major: very small; brown with pale yellow appendages; promesonotum smoothly semicircular in profile; heavily rugoreticulate

occiput; and unstriped gaster.

Minor: head smooth, almost entirely sculpture-free.

measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.64, HL 0.70, SL 0.38, EL 0.10, PW 0.34.

Paratype minor: HW 0.36, HL 0.40, SL 0.38, EL 0.08, PW 0.22.

color Major and minor: body medium brown, appendages pale yellow.

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Collected from a piece of rotting wood on a steep, forested slope.

Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. HONDURAS: 13 km south of La Ceiba, Atlantida Department, 130 m (W. L. Brown). Scale bars = 1 mm.