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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Neotropical Region: Americas, Central, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Heredia, Paraguay, South America, Venezuela

Distribution Notes:

Paraguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica. Paraguay: Central.

Comments:

This species is currently known from a handful of alate queens, from Paraguay, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. The type specimen was from a lowland rainforest site in southern Venezuela, from a pan trap. Alex Wild collected a queen in Paraguay, from a shaded lawn of a university campus. Two queens were collected as part of Project ALAS in Costa Rica in 2004. One was from a pan trap at La Selva Biological Station, a lowland rainforest site, and the other was from a Malaise trap at the "Cantarrana" site on the Volcan Barva transect, just upslope from La Selva at 300m. One queen was collected by Frank Parker at a 500m site near Lake Arenal.

This is the only species in the genus, and so far the known specimens, even though widely distributed, look identical. The holotype is imaged in Lattke's original publication, Alex Wild has an image of a live specimen on Myrmecos.net, and there are images on here on AntWeb.

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 2 times found in montane wet forest, 1 times found in SCH, 1 times found in Shaded lawn, 1 times found in wet forest.

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times bajo de M/26, 1 times National University Campus.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 2 times Malaise, 1 times flight intercept trap.

Elevations: collected from 50 - 550 meters, 295 meters average

Type specimens:

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