Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)
Overview:
A cryptic inhabitant of forest floor leaf litter and rotten wood, in Guatemalan cloud forest.
Distribution:
(based on species list records)
Neotropical Region: Americas,
Central America,
Guatemala,
Suchitepéquez
Distribution Notes:
Guatemala.
Biology:
Known from one worker, collected in a Winkler sample of sifted leaf litter, cloud forest on Volcán Atitlán, Guatemala.
Identification:
Mandible with double tooth row; face with 5 pairs erect setae, arranged as medial rectangle of 2 pairs flanked anterolaterally by 2 pairs; promesonotum with 3 pairs specialized erect setae; ground pilosity on face flattened, conspicuous. Similar to
E. hunhau,
E. sepultura.
Comments:
This species shares a distinctive facial seta pattern and peculiarly flattened labral setae with
E. sepultura, from the geographically close Sierra Madre de Chiapas. The two are likely closely related.
The species is named after the Roman god of volcanic fire.
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in cloud forest.
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times ex sifted leaf litter.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 1 times MiniWinkler.
Elevations: collected at 1625 m
Type specimens: holotype Eurhopalothrix vulcan Longino 2013: casent0612902
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