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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: Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Costa Rica (Atlantic lowlands).

Biology:

Natural History:

Brown and Wilson (1959) summarize the genus as follows:

"Widespread in tropics and warm temperate areas. Primarily forest-dwelling; some species occur in grassland and arid scrub. ... Nests mostly in soil and rotting wood; a few species live in arboreal plant cavities in tropical rain forest. Foraging hypogaeic to epigaeic-arboreal. Food: most species are collembolan feeders; a few are polyphagous predators or occasionally feed on sugary substances..."

Members of the genus are all predaceous, with a kinetic mode of attack (Bolton 1999).

This species occurs in lowland wet forest, in leaf litter on the forest floor.

References:

Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 33:1639-1689.

Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini, with a revision of the Strumigenys species of the Malagasy Region by Brian L. Fisher, and a revision of the Austral epopostrumiform genera by Steven O. Shattuck. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.

Brown, W. L., Jr., Wilson, E. O. 1959. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Quarterly Review of Biology 34:278-294.

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 56 times found in mature wet forest, 8 times found in lowland rainforest, 1 times found in Puesto7,196G,10m., 2 times found in montane wet forest, 1 times found in Puesto7,202G,10m, 2 times found in wet forest, 1 times found in Puesto5,105g,10m., 1 times found in Puesto7,127g, 10m., 1 times found in Puesto 16,200g.,10m., 1 times found in Puesto 7, 336g.,10m., ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 60 times ex sifted leaf litter, 4 times sifted litter, 1 times Berlese sample, 1 times under tree fern, near emergent tree, 1 times One of the ALAS Berlese samples., 1 times Hojarasca, 1 times forest leaf litter.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 57 times miniWinkler, 22 times Berlese, 7 times Winkler, 1 times Mini Winkler.

Elevations: collected from 50 - 1100 meters, 137 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1986-07-17 and 2015-06-10

Type specimens: holotype Strumigenys calamita: inbiocri001258719; paratype of Strumigenys calamita: casent0914731; Paratype Strumigenys calamita: inbiocri001216509, inbiocri001237677, inbiocri001239105, inbiocri001240588, inbiocri001254251, inbiocri001279186, inbiocri001283990

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