Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Range
Costa Rica (Osa Peninsula).
Identification
Antennae 8-9 segmented; face densely punctulate, mat (not shiny); interantennal lamella projecting as an acute angle between antennal insertions, descending to relatively shorter clypeal shelf, so that lamella appears triangular in lateral view; lamella relatively large compared to humilis, with ventral margin originating at anterior border of clypeus, such that in side view ventral portion of lamella is usually visible; clypeus projecting relatively farther beyond mandibles, compared to humilis; anterior border of clypeus somewhat truncate in face view; color uniformly red brown.
This species has the interantennal lamella like sexarticulata, but the form of the clypeus and antennal segmentation are like horni.
Natural History
Discothyrea are extremely small, cryptobiotic inhabitatants of forest leaf litter (see Genus Overview). For JTL-005 in Costa Rica, I have seen only 1 worker, in a Winkler sample of forest floor leaf litter, from Sirena in Corcovado National Park.
Comments
This may just be an aberrant specimen of horni.
Page author:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu
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