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Pheidole aspidata, paratype major, Eg04-VN-800 from S. Vietnam, head in full-face view |
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Pheidole aspidata, paratype major, Eg04-VN-800 from S. Vietnam, body in profile |
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Pheidole aspidata, paratype minor, Eg04-VN-800 from S. Vietnam, head in full-face view |
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Pheidole aspidata, paratype minor, Eg04-VN-800 from S. Vietnam, body in profile |
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Pheidole aspidata, paratype queen, Eg04-VN-800 from S. Vietnam, head in full-face view |
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Pheidole aspidata, paratype queen, Eg04-VN-800 from S. Vietnam, body in profile |
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Identification | |
The front of head truncated (major); in dorsolateral view genal corner extended as a triangular process (major); median part of hypostoma with a pair of large submedian processes and a low median process (major); posterior declivity of promesonotal dome at most with an inconspicuous prominence (major & minor); promesonotal dome smooth and shining (minor) or smooth and shining with several transverse rugulae (major) (for full description see Eguchi & Bui, 2005).
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Geographic distribution | |
Type Locality - S. Cat Tien N. P., Dong Nai Province, Vietnam (Eg04-VN-800).
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Natural history |
A single representative colony (the type series) nested under a stone of the forest floor (Eguchi & Bui, 2005).
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References | |
Eguchi, K. & Bui, T. V. 2005. A new South Vietnamese species of the genus Pheidole with a truncated head in the major and queen (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Sociobiology, 45; 721-730.
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