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Taxonomic history
Mainland Neotropics from Mexico to Brazil, and many Caribbean islands. Costa Rica: Atlantic slope to 800m, possibly elsewhere (see Comments).
Occurs in a wide range of habitats, including seasonally dry areas, wet habitats, mature forest, open pasture areas, city parks, beach edge; nests in soil, forming clusters of small crater-form tumuli; generalist foragers that quickly recruit to baits.
Longino has confused subarmata and hasticeps in earlier identifications. See discussion under hasticeps.
Scientific Name | Status | Publication | Pages | ModsID | GoogleMaps |
Pheidole subarmata | n. sp. | Radoszkowsky, O., 1884, Fourmis de Cayenne Française., Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 18, pp. 30-39: 37, (download) | 37 | 1929 | |
Pheidole subarmata | Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. -1--1: 759-760, (download) | 759-760 | 20017 | ||
Pheidole subarmata | Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 35, (download) | 35 | 21367 | ||
Pheidole subarmata | Forel, A., 1908, Fourmis de Costa-Rica, récoltées par M. Paul Biolley., Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 44, pp. 35-72: 52, (download) | 52 | 4014 |
Found most commonly in these habitats: 79 times found in 2º lowland rainforest, 19 times found in mature wet forest, 35 times found in tropical moist forest, 2 times found in La Selva, 14 times found in tropical moist forest, pasture, 7 times found in tropical rainforest, 4 times found in 2º wet forest, 3 times found in yard around house, 9 times found in garden, 5 times found in rainforest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 142 times at bait, 24 times ex sifted leaf litter, 8 times nest in soil, 3 times foragers, 2 times under stone, 1 times on ground, 2 times LeafLitter, 1 times edge of road, 1 times unknown, 1 times under rock, 1 times nest under rocks, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 160 times baiting, 15 times search, 19 times MiniWinkler, 8 times hand collecting, 4 times bait, 4 times MaxiWinkler, 2 times Winkler, 3 times direct collection, 1 times Winkler48h, 2 times flight intercept trap, 1 times hand collection, ...
Elevations: collected from 5 - 1250 meters, 201 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1900-06-15 00:00:00.0 and 2018-08-22 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Lectotype Pheidole subarmata: casent0601269; Not Provided: casent0283222; Paralectotype Pheidole subarmata: casent0601270; syntype of Pheidole subarmata: casent0901601; syntype of Pheidole cornutula: casent0904376; syntype of Pheidole cornutula dentimentum: casent0913454; syntype of Pheidole cornutula imbecillis: casent0904377, casent0904378; syntype of Pheidole subarmata elongatula: casent0908238, casent0908239; syntype of Pheidole subarmata nefasta: casent0913455; type of Pheidole subarmata: focol1556