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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: Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Costa Rica (Atlantic lowlands).

Biology:

Natural History:

Brown and Wilson (1959) summarize the genus as follows:

"Widespread in tropics and warm temperate areas. Primarily forest-dwelling; some species occur in grassland and arid scrub. ... Nests mostly in soil and rotting wood; a few species live in arboreal plant cavities in tropical rain forest. Foraging hypogaeic to epigaeic-arboreal. Food: most species are collembolan feeders; a few are polyphagous predators or occasionally feed on sugary substances..."

Members of the genus are all predaceous, with a kinetic mode of attack (Bolton 1999).

This species occurs in lowland wet forest, in leaf litter on the forest floor.

References:

Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 33:1639-1689.

Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini, with a revision of the Strumigenys species of the Malagasy Region by Brian L. Fisher, and a revision of the Austral epopostrumiform genera by Steven O. Shattuck. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.

Brown, W. L., Jr., Wilson, E. O. 1959. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Quarterly Review of Biology 34:278-294.

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 8 times found in mature wet forest, 1 times found in Puesto4,300 G,10m, 1 times found in tropical rainforest, 1 times found in Puesto #20,271G,10m., 1 times found in Puesto3,61 G,10m.

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 9 times ex sifted leaf litter.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 8 times miniWinkler, 4 times Berlese, 1 times MaxiWinkler.

Elevations: collected from 50 - 500 meters, 166 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1993-01-01 and 2010-06-10

Type specimens: holotype Strumigenys perdita: inbiocri001259079; Paratype perdita: inbiocri001228509, inbiocri001270299; paratype perdita: inbiocri001270385, inbiocri001270386

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