Neivamyrmex spoliator (Forel 1899)

Ecitoninae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

worker face view

worker lateral view

Additional images: male, lateral view (small, large).

Range

Mexico to Costa Rica (type locality), Panama. Costa Rica: Central Valley, Atlantic lowlands (La Selva), Cordillera de Tilar‡n (Monteverde).

Identification

Natural History

This species is known from males only. During an 18-month program of sampling using blacklight traps at La Selva, as part of the ALAS project, males occurred in 14 different samples, all in the months of January to May. Two males were also collected in Malaise traps, one in March and one in July. Two males were collected at the 300m site (Cantarrana) on the Barva transect in Braulio Carrillo National Park, one in a Malaise trap and one in a flight intercept trap, in April. In Monteverde, I have twice collected males. One was flying at dusk, at 1715hrs, and I caught it by hand. The other was at a house light. The collections were in April and June.


Page author:

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


Date of this version: 14 July 2005.
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