Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Additional images: worker, oblique view of head (small, large).
Range
Costa Rica: Atlantic lowlands.
Identification
Size small; color dirty yellow brown; mandible with basal tooth small relative to third tooth, mandibles subfalcate; clypeal carinae moderately divergent and projecting as strong clypeal teeth; compound eye circular, black, composed of several fused ommatidia; metanotal groove weakly impressed, promesonotum and dorsal face of propodeum more or less in same plane; pronounced transverse carina near vertex margin; strong anteroventral petiolar tooth.
Similar species: Solenopsis JTL-015.
Natural History
This species occurs in wet forest habitat, in the leaf litter on the ground. It is known from a few workers obtained in Winkler and Berlese samples from Project ALAS.
Page author:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu
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