Sunday, October 29, 2006

More Wasmannia


After going over all my Wasmannia again, I have come to the following conclusions:

  • All the specimens I originally labeled as sigmoidea are actually cf lutzi.
  • All the specimens I originally labeled as lutzi are actually rochai.
  • And all the queens I originally labeled as auropunctata are cf lutzi. These queens are all quite large with head width around 1.1 mm and thorax length around 1.75 mm.
  • Interestingly, all the rochai specimens were collected from the canopy and all of the cf lutzi specimens were collected from the ground except for 2 of the queens.
So now my Wasmannia species list is: auropunctata, iheringi, cf. lutzi, rochai, and scrobifera.

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