Eurhopalothrix Brown & Kempf 1961
Creators: name: Chaul, Júlio Cezar Mário
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Eurhopalothrix

description: A list of the southern South American Eurhopalothrix   
 Eurhopalothrix bruchi Santschi, 1922   
 Eurhopalothrix clypeata Brown & Kempf, 1960   
 Eurhopalothrix depressa Ketterl et al., 2004   
 Eurhopalothrix lenkoi Kempf, 1967   
 Eurhopalothrix pilulifera Brown & Kempf, 1960   
 Eurhopalothrix reichenspergeri (Santschi, 1923) stat. rev.   
 Eurhopalothrix speciosa Brown & Kempf, 1960   
 Eurhopalothrix spectabilis Kempf, 1962    Key to the southern South American Eurhopalothrix species   
 1 Dorsum of head, mesosoma and metasoma entirely covered on appressed squamose setae. Small species (HW 0.38–0.45) (Fig. 3)................................................. E. bruchi (ARG; BRA: SC, PR, SP, RJ, MG, ES, BA; PAR)   
- Pilosity never as above, species either mostly glabrous having conspicuous standing setae, sparsely distributed, easily countable, forming symmetrical pairs and ground pilosity never squamose. Various sizes, usually larger than above................ 2 2 Transverse arched ridge present on face.................................................................... 3  
- Transverse arched ridge absent on face.................................................................... 4  
 3 Transverse arched ridge on clypeal region (Fig. 4, A)...................................... E. clypeata (BRA: BA)   
 - Transverse arched ridge on frontovertexal region (Fig. 4, B).......................... E. depressa (BRA: SP, SC, RS) 4 Dorsum of head, mesosoma and metasoma devoid of standing setae (Fig. 5, A)................................................................................................. E. spectabilis (BRA: BA, MG, SP, PR, SC; PAR).   
- Dorsum of head, mesosoma and metasoma having standing “pompon-like” setae (Fig. 5, B)......................... 5 5 Infradental propodeal lamella expanded at least in its upper portion (Fig. 6, A).................................... 6  
- Infradental propodeal lamella small and adjunct to the curvature of the propodeal descending surface (Fig. 6, B).......... 7  
 6 Projecting setae on anterior margin of scape considerably different from those on its dorsal surface. Infradental lamella expanded across its entire length. Large species (HW 0.96)..................................... E. lenkoi (BRA: BA, ES, SP)   
 - Scape without differentiated setae on its anterior margin when compared to those on its dorsal surface. Infradental lamella becomes thin on its lowermost level (Fig. 6, A). Small species (HW 0.53–0.58)........ E. pilulifera (BOL; BRA: BA, GO)   
 7 Dorsum of head with three pairs of standing setae; promesonotum with two pairs (both at the mesonotal level). Eye large, easily larger than diameter of tip of pompon-like seta as seen from above (Fig. 7, A)......... E. speciosa (BRA: MG, RJ, SP, SC)   
 - Dorsum of head with nine pairs of standing setae; promesonotum with four pairs (two at the pronotum level and two at the mesonotum level). Eye small, not much larger than diameter of tip of pompon-like seta as seen from above (Fig. 7, B)......................................................................... E. reichenspergeri (BRA; MG, SP, SC)   
 With the revival of E. reichenspergeri, registers of E. gravis from southern South America which were not studied, such as that of Silva & Brandão (2014), might in fact represent E. reichenspergeri populations. Only two Eurhopalothrix species, E. clypeata and E. pilulifera, remain occurring both in the southern and in the northern portions of South America (Fig. 8).
description: Published as part of Chaul, Júlio Cezar Mário, 2022, Redescription of Eurhopalothrix reichenspergeri (Santschi, 1923) stat. rev. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Brazilian Atlantic Forest endemic species, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 5182 (1) on pages 5-8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7042702