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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2019)

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Costa Rica (type locality), Mexico (Fernandez and MacKay 2003, Fernandez 2003). Costa Rica: rainforests of Atlantic and southern Pacific lowlands, below 500m elevation.

Biology:

Natural History:

Inhabits forest floor litter. Known only from Winkler samples.

Notes:

Fernandez (2003) lists among the paratypes of this species a collection of mine, JTL2339-s, a Winkler sample from Estacion Cacao at 1500m. My records of material from this collection include only Adelomyrmex laevigatus and tristani. This may be an error in the publication. All other records suggest A. longinoi is a lowland species, and it would be unlikely to find it at the 1500m Cacao site.

References:

Fern‡ndez C., F. 2003. Revision of the myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex genus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 361: 1Ð52.

Fern‡ndez C., F., MacKay, W.P. 2003. The myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex laevigatus species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41:593Ð604.

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 18 times found in tropical rainforest, 22 times found in mature wet forest, 12 times found in tropical wet forest, 5 times found in wet forest, 2 times found in ridgetop cloud forest, 1 times found in CES, 4 times found in 2º tropical rainforest, 4 times found in montane wet forest, 1 times found in lowland rainforest, 2 times found in mature rainforest, edge of forest near pasture and agricultural land, steep rocky terrain, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 76 times ex sifted leaf litter, 5 times Hojarasca, 1 times Wet forest. Ex sifted leaf litter., 1 times Del refugio hacia M/14, 1 times bajo de M/29.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 55 times miniWinkler, 10 times Winkler, 13 times MaxiWinkler, 3 times Mini Winkler, 2 times Berlesse (Guaba), 1 times flight intercept trap, 1 times search, 1 times Berlese.

Elevations: collected from 5 - 1120 meters, 333 meters average

Type specimens: holotype Adelomyrmex longinoi: inbiocri002720661; paratype Adelomyrmex longinoi: inbiocri002720662; paratype longinoi: inbiocri001279878, inbiocri001279880, inbiocri001281613, inbiocri002719863, inbiocri002720659, inbiocri002720660, inbiocri002720663; paratype of Adelomyrmex longinoi: inbiocri001281612

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