Species: Wasmannia rochai

Distribution:

Costa Rica to Brazil. Costa Rica: Atlantic and southern Pacific lowlands.

Biology:

I know of only two Costa Rica records. Phil Ward collected workers and a dealate queen in a recent treefall at Carara Biological Reserve. David Olson collected workers during his study of Winkler and Pitfall trap sampling methods at La Selva Biological Station. I have collected the species at Barro Colorado Island in Panama. I found a nest under a bark flap on a recent treefall.

Notes:

The workers from La Selva look slightly different from the Carara and Panama workers, and I used to call them a distinct morphospecies, JTL-002. On the La Selva workers, the erect setae are longer and less curved than on Carara and Panama specimens.

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)