Species: Pseudomyrmex subater

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Pseudomyrma elongata subsp. subatra Wheeler & Mann, 1914 PDF: 19 (w.) HAITI. Neotropic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, "several"). Primary type locality: Haiti: Diquini (W.M. Mann). Primary type depository: MCZC. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1972b PDF: 224

Subspecies of Pseudomyrmex elongatus: Emery, 1921c PDF: 32; Wheeler, 1937b PDF: 446; Enzmann, 1944 PDF: 73.

Status as species: Kempf, 1972b PDF: 224; Ward, 1985b PDF: 228; Ward, 1990 PDF: 486; Ward, 1992 PDF: 80 (in table); Bolton, 1995b: 376; Wild, 2007b PDF: 41; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012 PDF: 264; Lubertazzi, 2019 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF: 165.

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Paraguay: Canindeyú

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55

subater (Wheeler & MannHNS 1914).

Canindeyú (ALWC, INBP).

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 6 times found in tropical dry forest, 4 times found in tropical moist forest, 2 times found in rainforest edge, 4 times found in lowland wet forest, mesophyll forest times found in Coffee finca, 1 times found in Port of entry, 1 times found in second-growth rainforest, 1 times found in secondary broadleaf forest, 1 times found in mesophil forest, 1 times found in tropical wet forest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 5 times on low vegetation, 7 times in dead twig, 7 times beating vegetation, 3 times Malaise trap, 5 times ex Cladium culm, 1 times ex dead twig of vine, 1 times ex dead stalk of Arthrostylidium, 3 times ex dead twig Bursera simaruba, 1 times ex dead twig, 1 times strays on clothes, 1 times on orchids, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 7 times Beating, 3 times Malaise, 3 times malaise trap, 2 times Search, 1 times mostly beating vegetation (1 hour), some hand collections, 1 times at light, 1 times hand collecting, 1 times Malaise 2, 1 times Malaise 5, 1 times Malaise 1.

Elevations: collected from 20 - 1300 meters, 314 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1923-03-03 00:00:00.0 and 2016-06-01 00:00:00.0

Type specimens:

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Species: Pseudomyrmex subater (Wheeler & Mann, 1914)

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