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Taxonomic history
Costa Rica.
This species is known from a single collection from Costa Rica, comprising a worker and an ergatoid queen, and described as a new species by O'Keefe and Agosti (1997). The habitat was riparian forest in a region of tropical dry forest vegetation. The specimens were obtained from sifted leaf litter from the forest floor.
This was the first record of an ergatoid queen in the genus.
Taylor (1965) observed a captive colony of P. boliviensis; his observations, which may be applicable to other species in the genus, are available on the boliviensis page.
O'Keefe, S. T., and D. Agosti. 1997. A new species of Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Guanacaste, Costa Rica. J. New York Ent. Soc. 105:190-192.
Taylor, R. W. 1965. A monographic revision of the rare tropicopolitan ant genus Probolomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 117:345-365.
Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in Riparian, 1 times found in riparian forest.
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times leaf litter in small patch rip.forest.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 1 times Berlese, 1 times Berlese litter.
Collect Date Range: collected on 1996-07-31
Type specimens: holotype: jtl015592; paratype of Probolomyrmex guanacastensis: casent0104673
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