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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Mexico, Guatemala (type locality), Costa Rica. Costa Rica: widespread in lowland wet forest, including the Osa Peninsula, Hitoy Cerere, La Selva Biological Station and surrounding Atlantic slope sites to 1000m, Penas Blancas Valley, and the Pitilla area of Guanacaste Conservation Area. Appears less common on Pacific side (one record from the Osa Peninsula, Ranch Quemado) than on the Atlantic side (many records).

Biology:

Natural History:

Workers and queens occur in samples of sifted leaf litter from the forest floor. Mike Kaspari collected a specimen at a barley bait in the La Selva successional plots.

Comments:

DNA barcode results show a division between specimens from southern Nicaragua vs. specimens from coastal Honduras to Chiapas, but I cannot find a morphological correlate.

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 303 times found in mature wet forest, 132 times found in tropical rainforest, 63 times found in montane wet forest, 54 times found in 2º lowland tropical rainforest, 43 times found in tropical moist forest, 27 times found in wet forest, 29 times found in tropical wet forest, 24 times found in lowland rainforest, 21 times found in 2º lowland rainforest, 20 times found in 2º tropical rainforest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 727 times ex sifted leaf litter, 51 times Hojarasca, 3 times ex sifted litter, 1 times Hojarasca., 3 times Muestra tomada alrrededor de M/20, 1 times 25yr old second growth just above Casa Plastico. Ex sifted leaf litter on ground, 3 times sifted litter, 1 times leaf litter, 1 times Bosque Primario, Suelo, 2 times at bait, 1 times One of the ALAS Berlese samples., ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 594 times MiniWinkler, 62 times Winkler, 91 times MaxiWinkler, 55 times Mini Winkler, 13 times Berlese, 2 times baiting, 1 times Malaise, 1 times search, 1 times Sweeping, 1 times Berlese/Winkler, 1 times flight intercept trap, ...

Elevations: collected from 5 - 2150 meters, 280 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1906-04-15 and 2020-02-16

Type specimens: type: jtl0002358

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