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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Argentina, Brasil (SC, SP, MG, ES, GO, MT, PA, AM), Bolivia, Pereu, Guianas, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico (Veracruz, Chiapas). Costa Rica: widespread in wet forest areas.

Biology:

Natural History:

Regarding this species, Brown (1965) states:

T. rogenhoferi is the most widespread and by far the most often-collected species, being an inhabitant of rotten logs in forest. This species is common in the Amazon Basin, where I have seen nests of several hundred workers moving in file through the rot zone just beneath the bark of a log. I have examined several such aggregations in the field, but I was not able to find definite indications of the prey of these undoubtedly predaceous ants.

In Costa Rica I have collected rogenhoferi at La Selva Biological Station and adjacent slopes of Volcan Barba to 700m, Penas Blancas Valley, Monteverde, Guanacaste Conservation Area (Pitilla), Corcovado National Park. I commonly find colonies beneath loose bark on rotten wood, and have found lone queens in small chambers under epiphytes in old treefalls. In spite of its commonness in rotten wood, I rarely obtain workers in Winkler samples of sifted litter from the forest floor. This suggests that colonies and foragers are restricted to large pieces of rotten wood, not venturing out into the litter.

References:

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1965. Contributions to a reclassification of the Formicidae. IV. Tribe Typhlomyrmecini (Hymenoptera). Psyche (Camb.) 72:65-78.

Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12:649-776.

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 15 times found in montane wet forest, 16 times found in wet forest, 1 times found in Arboleda, 5 times found in cloud forest, 5 times found in mature wet forest, 3 times found in mature rainforest, edge of forest near pasture and agricultural land, steep rocky terrain, 4 times found in tropical moist forest, 1 times found in coffee finca, 3 times found in moist forest, 1 times found in lowland tropical wetforest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 26 times ex sifted leaf litter, 7 times Hojarasca, 2 times rotten log, 1 times Hongos, 3 times under loose bark, 2 times under bark, 1 times Sobre Tronco podrido, 3 times ex rotten log, 1 times nest in dead wood, 1 times nest beneath bark, 3 times Malaise trap, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 26 times search, 13 times MiniWinkler, 7 times Winkler, 7 times maxiWinkler, 4 times Malaise, 7 times Mini Winkler, 1 times Enjuague/hojas, 2 times hand collecting, 3 times Berlese, 2 times flight intercept trap, 1 times hand collection, ...

Elevations: collected from 5 - 1670 meters, 683 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1934-05-27 00:00:00.0 and 2023-04-01 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: Nontype: casent0745144, casent0745145, casent0745146; syntype of Centromyrmex sculpturatus: casent0915319; syntype of Typhlomyrmex rogenhoferi robustus: casent0903806

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