New species of ant (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) from North Florida

摘要

A new species of dacetine ant, Pyramica apalachicolensis, is described. Specimens were found in poorly drained, fire-maintained flatwoods with an open canopy of large pines and dense herbaceous ground cover in the Apalachicola National Forest of Florida. Diagnostic features of the species are the cuneiform head, the conspicuous mandibular diastema, and the long, fine, sparse, suberect, slightly recurved clypeal hairs. It is generally similar to several of the other 26 species of Pyramica native to southeastern North America.