Neivamyrmex longiscapus Borgmeier 1953

Ecitoninae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

worker face view

worker lateral view

Range

Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica (type locality). Costa Rica: Atlantic lowlands.

Identification

Comment

I know this species from two males collected during a Project ALAS light trapping program in 1998-1999. I also have an earlier record based on material collected by Brian Brown and sent to Julian Watkins for identification. The species is known only from males.

Borgmeier (1955) suggested it was close to pilosus. Since the worker of impudens was close to the worker of pilosus, he suggested longiscapus might be the male of impudens.


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John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu


Date of this version: 1 July 2007.
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