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<treatment id="37CF31EADD73B72D2CBFE7D22E30DC58" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6274270" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100119523" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6274270" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:37CF31EADD73B72D2CBFE7D22E30DC58" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/37CF31EADD73B72D2CBFE7D22E30DC58" lastPageNumber="570" pageNumber="570">
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<taxonomicName id="B5BB40426329B6877888730754D2E74D" ID-CoL="4FY9H" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33659" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ceres">Pheidole ceres Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="80580103A66BB07E9FDB9FAB5E7D3421" pageNumber="570">
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<taxonomicName id="E54CD53C690BE10708BC8ABC3A15CDA4" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33659" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ceres">Pheidole ceres Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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1904a: 10. Syn.:
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<taxonomicName id="86866ED2AEFDF14918C614FE1FDB8F9F" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:151235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres tepaneca Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres tepaneca Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="ceres" subSpecies="tepaneca">Pheidole ceres subsp. tepaneca Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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1914c: 46,
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="B3B7E1055F4C923D730B97F8A5CF9DE9">n. syn.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="D6997A721A391F3364DCDDFFA4E48081" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph id="4A2F55B4FF9039BAD3C79C73802F7024" pageNumber="570">types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="B5C09D6EF0FD6B2AE3D729D4E4A6390D" type="etymology">
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<paragraph id="649824BC59677CD1EF1A30C52A5884CF" pageNumber="570">Etymology L Ceres, the pre-Roman goddess of agriculture, evidently in reference to the seed-harvesting practiced by the species.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="539434FCC25477C6A76860EDC0349C5D" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="ED68B20BC0487D5E7B725EC04B4AF331" pageNumber="570">
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diagnosis A member of the "
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<taxonomicName id="AEB0F5DBFF2EE949980F732962970C9A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33617" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole bicarinata Mayr" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole bicarinata Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicarinata">bicarinata</taxonomicName>
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complex" of the larger
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<taxonomicName id="2AC0046E77C66E4B1ED2BC1610538C29" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33930" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole pilifera (Roger)" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole pilifera (Roger)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilifera">pilifera</taxonomicName>
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group, comprising
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<taxonomicName id="2A3DF93B170F1EA26AE5DEF281C28246" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181968" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole agricola Wilson" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole agricola Wilson" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="agricola">agricola</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="DC77CEF060C1910C7D227DF68E8745EA" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181969" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole aurea Wilson" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole aurea Wilson" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aurea">aurea</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="5487E29CD5C1936FE875F16600836C77" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33608" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole barbata Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole barbata Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="barbata">barbata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="CB33D33D279B1C27D78105B2C52CB0BE" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33617" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole bicarinata Mayr" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole bicarinata Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicarinata">bicarinata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="5E909EAF82076AFB0489BF757175DA1D" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33656" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole centeotl Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole centeotl Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="centeotl">centeotl</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="48741D0473668AB2BC9A665FC12FF4CB" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33658" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole cerebrosior Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole cerebrosior Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cerebrosior">cerebrosior</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="C49F3B3A3D50A44846FF5801FAF46C43" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33659" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ceres">ceres</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="1FAD965A9619D4D649F263796195D8D2" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33702" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole defecta Santschi" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole defecta Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="defecta">defecta</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="A7D357F82466770A0599AF061C0B914F" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33762" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole gilvescens Creighton & Gregg" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole gilvescens Creighton & Gregg" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gilvescens">gilvescens</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="7850751A3DBF11537E3E68823CED51F1" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33847" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole macclendoni Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole macclendoni Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macclendoni">macclendoni</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="58B6B07DB12559AAEED3C1B7D269894A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181974" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole macrops Wilson" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole macrops Wilson" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macrops">macrops</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="28E40149A6ADFFFF1CB2F9A627C21C68" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33856" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole marcidula Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole marcidula Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marcidula">marcidula</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="92D13F18DD25304C65AD73A2A153B319" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole paiute Gregg" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole paiute Gregg" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="paiute">paiute</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="FB153477CEB0FD4BA1541D5EDC10DD56" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33932" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole pinealis Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole pinealis Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pinealis">pinealis</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="E93878B3857424CE2E87A4D2F995A2C8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33944" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole psammophila Creighton & Gregg" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole psammophila Creighton & Gregg" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="psammophila">psammophila</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="60C5B2202941DEC1C64E3F0F41AF4D80" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:189143" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole vinelandica Forel" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole vinelandica Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vinelandica">vinelandica</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="E42121B58F44A7C9ECEC00EF827380C6" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:34107" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole xerophila Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole xerophila Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="xerophila">xerophila</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="4F743BE94D9E1A94F2640764C39E3228" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181978" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole yucatana Wilson" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole yucatana Wilson" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yucatana">yucatana</taxonomicName>
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, which complex is characterized by the large to very large, forward-set eyes, especially in the minor; and in the major, the occipital lobes lacking any sculpturing (except in
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<taxonomicName id="4CB5ADC9507B8BEF2792C163BF5AC05B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:181969" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole aurea Wilson" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole aurea Wilson" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aurea">aurea</taxonomicName>
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); the posterior half of the head capsule almost entirely smooth and shiny; and the postpetiolar node seen from above oval, elliptical, or laterally angulate (cornulate in
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<taxonomicName id="3A608D57A814A24ADE4BCC7CB024C9EE" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33658" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole cerebrosior Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole cerebrosior Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cerebrosior">cerebrosior</taxonomicName>
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).
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<taxonomicName id="8B735DD7B433DED8ACC78727E67C959A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33659" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ceres">P. ceres</taxonomicName>
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is distinguished within the complex by the following combination of traits. Dark to blackish brown. Major: carinulae originating on the frontal triangle travel along the midline to the occiput; transverse carinulae present along the anterior lateral margins of the pronotum; mesonotal convexity and propodeal spines well-developed; postpetiole from above laterally angulate and diamond-shaped.
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<subSubSection id="27E6402F8271A3C48E9FF38A9261C340" type="description">
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<paragraph id="4FD21C3F67FD3C5365CC296BD50353B6" pageNumber="570">Minor: eyes moderately large; mesonotal convexity low but well-developed. Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 1.14, HL 1.18, SL 0.66, EL 0.16, PW 0.54. Paralectotype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.60, SL 0.54, EL 0.12, PW 0.34.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F0731BA5E57068A2E1D36204D8F384B7" pageNumber="570">Color Major: body blackish brown, with brownish yellow clypeus; appendages brownish yellow to medium brown. Minor: like the major, except that the clypeus is not yellow but dark brown and hence not contrasting.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="63D996E05D9B9E11E64EDEB799D9D204" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="D46ED5D868676D4AC9A12BAB44ACAC98" pageNumber="570">
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Range Foothills of the Rockies in eastern Colorado at 1800-2600 m, southwest to the mountains of New Mexico and Arizona, at 2200-2700 m, as well as extreme eastern Nevada. Also recorded from the Davis Mts. of Texas but evidently rare there (Creighton 1950a: 174), and from Guerrereo Mills, in the mountains of Hidalgo (
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types).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="3FC9FEAD5BFFD7E92EDC37ABF783A619" type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph id="493ECDBC63C4566A581BB6C8FD45EC43" lastPageNumber="571" pageNumber="570">
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biology According to Stefan Cover,
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is found at higher elevations and in colder climates than any other
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<taxonomicName id="2A23CA5718D23D364257AEC58434FCD7" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24885" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole Westwood" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole Westwood" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Pheidole</taxonomicName>
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species in the western North American fauna. In southern Arizona it is often the only
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<taxonomicName id="A297CD1CBD75B1BEF64CC24120C83A16" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24885" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole Westwood" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole Westwood" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Pheidole</taxonomicName>
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occurring above 2250 m. Gregg (1963) reports
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<taxonomicName id="E4E35DACD21EFAAD1194B27D74062568" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33659" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ceres">ceres</taxonomicName>
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to be the most abundant
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<taxonomicName id="D9D17369797B2B4B6E071C749560E905" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24885" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole Westwood" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole Westwood" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Pheidole</taxonomicName>
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in Colorado, where it occurs in a wide array of habitats, including ponderosa pine forest, foothills meadowland, and sagebrush. Cover found the species in the same general habitats in Arizona and New Mexico. In Nevada G. C. and J. Wheeler (1986g) found a colony at 2650 m in juniper-pinyon woodland. The ants collect and store seeds of a variety of grasses and herbaceous angiosperms.
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<taxonomicName id="006B278AAE963B59AE034B6CEBD54ED0" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33659" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ceres">P. ceres</taxonomicName>
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nests in several types of open soil under rocks. Colonies are large and active, consisting of up to 1000 ants. Majors are numerous and most colonies are monogynous.
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<taxonomicName id="761D8E83DED32C840CDCC97D924DBBFF" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33659" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole ceres Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ceres">P. ceres</taxonomicName>
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is also notable as the host of the workerles parasite
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<taxonomicName id="95A50FE242F7B0785A7F56F3D7839DE2" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33721" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pheidole elecebra (Wheeler)" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole elecebra (Wheeler)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="570" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elecebra">P. elecebra</taxonomicName>
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. Winged sexuals have been found in nests principally from early to the middle of July, with one record of males on 9 September. Winged reproductives have been found in nests throughout July, and a wingless queen was collected on 21 July, presumably following a nuptial flight.
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<paragraph id="50896B2C5A06D87A05DD94F6C42A0A2E">Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor. COLORADO: Colorado Springs (W. M. Wheeler). Scale bars = 1 mm.</paragraph>
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