Acanthoponera goeldii schwarzi
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Acanthoponera
Species: Acanthoponera goeldii
Name
Acanthoponera goeldii schwarzi Wheeler, W. M., 1923 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Acanthoponera goeldii Wheeler, W. M., 1923, Psyche 30: 188-189.
Description
Worker. Length 4.5 mm. Agreeing well with Forel's description of the type but smaller, with the petiolar spine as long as the epinotal spines and apparently directed somewhat more upward. The epinotal spines diverge and their downward deflection is feeble. There is no constriction between the postpetiole and gaster. The color seems to be paler, being brownish yellow, the postpetiole and Fig 5. Acanthoponera goeldiiHNS subsp, schwarziHNS subsp. nov. Worker, lateral aspecc. gaster lighter than the head and thorax (darker in the typical goeldiiHNS), as pale as the legs, only the overlapping posterior borders of the segments brown. Judging from the description of goeldiiHNS, the sculpture of the head, thorax and petiole is finer and more indistinct and the postpetiole and gaster are not aciculate, but very finely and superficially punctulate. Pubescence on these latter regions conspicuously long. The frontal carinae with their accompanying scrobes extend to the posterior corners of the head and there curve downward and forward to terminate under the eyes, as in the typical goeldiiHNS.
Materials Examined
Described from a single specimen found running on a cacao tree at Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala by Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and H. S. Barber.
Discussion
This may be a distinct species, but as I have seen no specimens of the typical goeldiiHNS, with the description of which it agrees in quite a number of characters, it may stand provisionally as a subspecies.
Taxon Treatment
- Wheeler, W. M.; 1923: Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera., Psyche 30: 188-189. doi
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