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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: Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 77 times found in montane wet forest, 48 times found in mature wet forest, 33 times found in tropical wet forest, 22 times found in wet forest, 23 times found in lowland wet forest, 22 times found in mesophil forest, 10 times found in tropical rainforest, 4 times found in riparian forest, 9 times found in ridgetop cloud forest, 7 times found in lowland rainforest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 112 times ex sifted leaf litter, 79 times at bait, 31 times Hojarasca, 19 times Sobre Vegetacion, 7 times Primary forest, 11 times beating vegetation, 3 times ex sifted litter, 6 times bajo de M/16, 4 times sifted litter, 3 times bajo de M/04, 1 times at tuna bait, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 76 times baiting, 85 times miniWinkler, 30 times Winkler, 25 times Mini Winkler, 19 times Sweeping, 16 times MaxiWinkler, 7 times bait, 8 times Lure/Bait, 14 times flight intercept trap, 13 times Beating, 6 times search, ...

Elevations: collected from 5 - 1800 meters, 522 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1937-12-01 and 2020-02-13

Type specimens: Holotype major Pheidole perdiligens: mcztype-34321; Holotype major worker Pheidole texticeps: mcztype-34347; paratype Pheidole perdiligens: jtlc000016487; paratype Pheidole texticeps: jtlc000016554; syntype of Pheidole plebecula: casent0904359

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