Heteroponerinae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Additional images: worker mandible (small, large).
Range
Southern Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica (Atlantic slope).
Identification
Petiole lacking posteriorly-directed tooth; mandible subfalcate, without well-differentiated basal margin; eyes small, with only a few facets.
Comments
A worker was collected from a Winkler sample of sifted leaf litter from the forest floor, one of the samples from Conservation International's TEAM project (AMI-1-W-079-06), from mature lowland wet forest of La Selva Biological Station. An alate queen was collected in a Project ALAS Malaise trap, at the 500m elevation site on the Barva Transect above La Selva, Feb-Apr 2003.
Page author:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu
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