Should be made jr. syn. of N. impudens (Mann 1922).
Ecitoninae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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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.
Note of 15 Jan 2010: CO1 (DNA barcode) sequence data (courtesy Alex Smith and BOLD) confirm that impudens workers and longiscapus males from a site in Guatemala are the same. I now consider longiscapus a jr. syn. of impudens and have changed my specimen database accordingly.
Page author:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu
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