Mexico south to Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad; Puerto Rico (type locality Guatemala). Costa Rica: Atlantic and Pacific lowlands.
Occurs in various habitats, including highly disturbed areas (city parks), seasonal dry forest, mature lowland rainforest, second growth rainforest, on the ground, and in the canopy; nests opportunistically in small cavities.
susannae. Pheidole susannae Forel, 1886b: xliii (s.w.) GUATEMALA. Senior synonym of evoluta: Kempf, 1964e: 63; of atricolor: Wilson, 2003: 351; of obscurior (and its junior synonym partita): Longino, 2009: 79.