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Species: Strumigenys calamita   Bolton, 2000 

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2022)

Strumigenys calamita Bolton, 2000: 550 (w.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic. Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Heredia, Est. Biol. La Selva, 50-150 m., 10°26’N, 84°01W, 1.xii.1993, INBio-OET, bosque primario, B/07/315 (no collector’s name). Primary type depositories: BMNH. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 11 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 2 paratype workers with same data as holotype but 3.viii.1993, B/18/187 and B/19/188, bosque secondario, 2 paratype workers with same data as holotype but 1.ix.1993, B/05/279 and B/07/280, bosque primario, 2 paratype workers with same data as holotype but vii.1992, #3203-S (J. Longino), 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype but 1992, litter/soil arthropod study, #C-1 (U. Wagner), 3 paratype workers Heredia, La Selva, 50 m., 10°26’N, 83°59’W, 20.iii.1987, #243 (D.M. Olsen), 1 paratype worker Prov. Heredia, 13 km. SSW Pto Viejo, 10°21’N, 84°03’W, 300 m., 17.vii.1986, wet forest, litter sample, #1390-S (J. Longino). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, INBC, JTLC, LACM, MCZC, UCDC. AntCat AntWiki HOL
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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 Puesto18,151G. 10m., 1 times found in Puesto5,105g,10m., 1 times found in Puesto7,127g, 10m., 1 times found in Puesto 16,200g.,10m., ...

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

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 00:00:00.0 and 2015-06-10 00:00:00.0

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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