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Taxonomic history
Costa Rica (type locality), Mexico (Fernandez and MacKay 2003, Fernandez 2003). Costa Rica: Monteverde cloudforest at 1600m; Volcan Barva cloud forest. In Monteverde, seems to have a parapatric distribution with laevigatus. This species inhabits the wet ridgecrest cloudforest; laevigatus inhabits the flanking moist forest on the Pacific side, and occurs in Penas Blancas at Eladio's.
Inhabits forest floor litter. Known only from Winkler samples.
Fern‡ndez C., F. 2003. Revision of the myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex genus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 361: 1Ð52.
Fern‡ndez C., F., MacKay, W.P. 2003. The myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex laevigatus species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41:593Ð604.
Scientific Name | Status | Publication | Pages | ModsID | GoogleMaps |
Adelomyrmex | Fernández, F., 2003, Revision of the myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex genus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 361, pp. 1-52: 5-6, (download) | 5-6 | 20236 | ||
Adelomyrmex brevispinosus | Fernández, F., 2003, Revision of the myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex genus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 361, pp. 1-52: 15-16, (download) | 15-16 | 20236 |