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UCD Entomology: Ward Lab- Pseudomyrmex viduus (F. Smith, 1858) (957 words) |
 | A member of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group, with an elongate head (CI 0.70-0.79), closely contiguous frontal carinae (worker MFC < 0.080), long eyes relative to head width (REL2 0.50-0.57), flattened mesosoma, broad profemur (FI 0.44-0.49), and relatively small size (HW < 1.00). |
| viduus is a wide-ranging species, distributed from Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil, with an unconfirmed record from Cuba. |
| viduus group (MFC < 0.080, PFC < 0.120), tending be parallel or slightly converging along most of their course and then more strongly converging posteriorly (ASM >= PFC > MFC). |
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