Russell S. Pfau on Nostr: Beneath a stone at #TimberlakeFieldStation, I found these #ants. Pheidole tepicana is ...

Beneath a stone at #TimberlakeFieldStation, I found these #ants. Pheidole tepicana is an uncommonly seen species. They have three worker castes of different sizes: minor, major and supermajor (all three are shown here).

To date, there are only 19 observations of this species on #iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?locale=en&place_id=any&preferred_place_id=1&subview=map&taxon_id=266053