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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Costa Rica
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Costa Rica: throughout the country in mid to low elevation wet forest.

Biology:

Natural History:

This species occurs in wet to moist forest habitats. On the Barva transect in Braulio Carrillo National Park, it is very common from La Selva to 500m elevation, but declines to absence by 1000m. Workers are common in Winkler samples of sifted leaf litter. Workers occasionally come to baits on the forest floor. Nests have been found in small rotten sticks in the leaf litter and in sticks lodged in low vegetation.

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 540 times found in mature wet forest, 111 times found in montane wet forest, 84 times found in lowland rainforest, 33 times found in wet forest, 41 times found in rainforest, 17 times found in tropical rainforest, 2 times found in SSO, 3 times found in LOC, 3 times found in SSA, 1 times found in SSE, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 593 times ex sifted leaf litter, 86 times Hojarasca, 76 times sifted litter, 22 times at bait, 4 times pecan sandie bait, 6 times Primary forest, 8 times Primary, 8 times Sobre Vegetacion, 2 times Hojarasca., 4 times on efn Passiflora pittieri, 4 times flight intercept trap, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 562 times miniWinkler, 126 times Winkler, 75 times Mini Winkler, 43 times Berlese, 20 times baiting, 26 times flight intercept trap, 14 times Lure/Bait, 14 times Pitfall, 9 times search, 8 times Malaise, 8 times Sweeping, ...

Elevations: collected from 5 - 1500 meters, 196 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1980-01-05 and 2021-05-11

Type specimens:

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