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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: Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, United States
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Nearctic, Neotropical

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 2 times found in weedy open area, 4 times found in tropical dry forest, 1 times found in road edge in mesophyl forest, 3 times found in Garden, 1 times found in second growth wet forest, 2 times found in Tropical Brushland, 2 times found in agricultural zone, 2 times found in Tropical evergreen forest, 2 times found in agricultural/urban, 2 times found in Tropical hardwood forest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 3 times ground nest, 1 times nest in road, 3 times at bait, 1 times in house, 1 times soil mound, nuptial flight, 2 times large crumb crater, 1 times foragers on ground at night, 0 times ex refuse deposit, 1 times ex forest litter, 1 times dry roadside, 1 times cutting oleander, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 8 times search, 3 times baiting, 1 times direct collection, 2 times pitfall, 1 times Berlese, 1 times Malaise.

Elevations: collected from 10 - 2103 meters, 1096 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1937-03-23 and 2017-06-29

Type specimens: syntype of Atta mexicana: casent0900486, casent0900487

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