Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography.
Author
Brown, WL Jr.,
text
Studia Entomologica
1978
20
549
638
http://antbase.org/ants/publications/6757/6757.pdf
journal article
6757
Anochetus kempfi
new species
(fig. 52)
Worker, holotype: TL 8.4, HL 1.61, HW 1.31, ML 1.05, WL 2.49, scape L 1.70, eye L 0.33 mm; Cl 81, MI 65.
Paratype workers: TL 7.4-8.1, HL 1.52-1.62, HW 1.25-1.31, ML 0.97- 1.05, WL 2.30-2.54, scape L 1.61-1.80, eye L 0.31-0.32 mm; Cl 81-82, MI 64-65 (based on 4 workers from Culebra I. and
Catano
, Puerto Rico).
Belonging to the the
A. haytianus
superspecies, and very similar to A.
tongispina
, but differing from it and from
A. haytianus
in possessing well-developed, erect, acute propodeal teeth (fig. 52). The spines atop the petiolar node (L about 0.20 mm) are not quite as long and slender as those of
tongispina
, but are much longer than those of
haytianus
. The striation is also finer and more opaque (sericeous in some lights) than in
tongispina
or
haytianus
, especially on pronotum.
Ferruginous
yellow in color; mandibles, appendages and petiole pale yellow.
Queen and male unknown; queen almost certainly will prove to be ergatoid.
Holotype (MCZ) and 5 paratype workers, 2 of them headless (MCZ, BMNH-London), from Culebra Island, Puerto Rico (W. M. Wheeler). According to the collector (
Wheeler, 1908: 125
), the Culebra samples, which he assigned to
A. testaceus
, came from "Several colonies nesting under stones in the shade of trees along the dry arroyos on the higher part of the island (Monte Resaca). The number of individuals in a colony varies from about thirty to one hundred". Probably more Culebra specimens exist in AMNH-New York. An additional paratype worker, slightly darker than the (possibly faded) Culebra sample, comes from Catafio, near San Juan, Puerto Rico (S. Peck), "from epigaean carrion trap # 10".