Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Range
Highlands of southern Mexico to lowland Choco, Colombia (Brown 1960, Lattke 1991). Costa Rica: wet forests from 50-1700m elevation, cordilleras north to south.
Identification
Antennae 12-segmented; lobes of frontal carinae contiguous.
Notes
Costa Rican localities for Amblyopone orizabana are:
Heredia: La Selva Biological Station, 10¡26'N, 84¡01'W, 50m.
Puntarenas: Monteverde, 10¡18'N, 84¡48'W, 1500m.
Puntarenas: Wilson Botanical Garden, 4km S San Vito, 8¡47'N, 82¡58'W, 1200m.
Puntarenas: Estacion Biol. Pittier, 9¡02'N, 82¡58'W, 1670m.
The species is usually collected as workers in the leaf litter and soil of mature wet forest (Winkler and Berlese samples). Alate queens have been collected in canopy fogging samples from Project ALAS at La Selva Biological Station.
Type data
Amblyopone orizabana Brown 1960:190. Holotype worker: Mexico, Veracruz, Pico Orizaba, 2700-2800m (E. O. Wilson) [MCZC].
Amblyopone tropicalis Brown 1962:73. Holotype worker: Panama, Barro Colorado Island (W. L. Brown) [MCZC]. Synonymy by Lattke (1991).
Literature Cited
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 122:143-230.
Lattke, J. E. 1991. Studies of Neotropical Amblyopone Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 428:1-7.
Page author:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu
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