Six new Pyramica species from Suriname (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Author
Makhan, D.
text
Calodema Supplementary Paper
2007
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http://antbase.org/ants/publications/21333/21333.pdf
journal article
21333
Pyramica wani
sp. nov.
(Figs. 11 - 12)
Holotype: worker, Suriname, Nieuw Amsterdam, 30.3.1996, coll. D. Makhan (only the holotype).
Description (holotype worker): Length 1.8 mm. Colour yellow-brown. Total head length 0.7 mm, width 0.45 mm, with spatulate hairs. mandible length 0.25 mm, large, inner teeth absent and with thick hairs. Eyes large. Antennae yellow-brown, scape with spatulate hairs. Mesosoma length 0.5 mm, width 0.3 mm, with spatulate hairs. Petiole with 0.1 mm, postpetiole width 0.15 mm, with spatulate hairs. Spongiform appendages absent. Gaster length 0.5 mm, width 0.4 mm, with spatulate hairs.
Etymology: This species is named after my son Rishwan Makhan.
Fig. 11.
Pyramica wani
sp. nov.
(worker holotype). Habitus (scale line = 0.4 mm).