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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: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Nearctic, Neotropical

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 13 times found in tropical moist forest, 4 times found in 2º lowland rainforest, 3 times found in roadside edge, 2 times found in tropical dry forest, 1 times found in secondary vegetation, 2 times found in 2nd growth rainforest, 1 times found in disturbed tropical forest, 1 times found in dry scrub, 2 times found in roadside, 1 times found in edge of clearing, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 11 times beating vegetation, 17 times Acacia hindsii, 10 times Acacia, 5 times ex swollen-thorn Acacia, 7 times Malaise trap, 7 times Acacia collinsii, 6 times ex bullhorn acacia, 5 times Acacia costaricensis, 3 times on Acacia, 2 times ex ant acacia, 3 times Acacia donelliana, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 11 times Beating, 7 times Malaise, 2 times search, 1 times Baiting, 1 times flight intercept trap, 1 times sweep net, 1 times uv, 220v.

Elevations: collected from 10 - 910 meters, 333 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1951-05-16 and 2015-12-10

Type specimens: Lectotype of Pseudomyrmex peperi: casent0907552; syntype of Pseudomyrma spinicola convarians: casent0907563

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