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.