Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Image of queen face view: (small file, large file).
Identification
Minor worker: head length 0.65mm, head width 0.59mm, scape length 0.91mm, Webers length 0.94mm (n=1). Head rounded behind; promesonotum evenly arched, mesonotal suture absent; propodeal spines long, upturned; face, mesosoma, and gaster largely smooth and shining, very faint sculpture on anepisternum and propodeum; dorsal pilosity moderately abundant, long, flexuous; color red brown.
Major worker: unknown.
Range
Costa Rica: Atlantic slope.
Natural History
This large species is known from very few records. One worker was collected in a Winkler sample from La Selva Biological Station. Longino collected a queen and several minor workers from a small chamber beneath a stone, in clay soil beneath mature rainforest, at the 500m site on the Barva transect. Marc Pollet also collected some workers in pan traps set out at this site.
Page authors:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA. longinoj@evergreen.edu
Stefan Cover, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138 USA. scover@oeb.harvard.edu
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