Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Identification
Minor worker: head length 0.58mm, head width 0.48mm, scape length 0.71mm, Webers length 0.72mm (n=1). Head elongate rounded behind; mesonotal suture weakly impressed; propodeal spines moderately long, spiniform; face foveolate; mesosoma uniformly foveolate, overlain with reticulate rugae on promesonotal dorsum; first gastral tergum mat, not shining; dorsal pilosity abundant, moderately long, stiff; color orange.
Major worker: head length 1.02mm, head width 1.00mm, scape length 0.66mm (n=1). Face punctatorugose throughout; hypostomal margin flat, with small median tooth, and pair of large teeth about one half distance to recessed teeth flanking mandible bases; dorsal pilosity abundant; head with abundant, short setae projecting from sides of head in face view.
Range
Costa Rica, Panama (type locality BCI). Costa Rica: southern Pacific lowlands.
Selected Records
19km S Ciudad Neily: patch of lowland primary rain forest with trees being felled as we collected; Winkler sample.
Page authors:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA. longinoj@evergreen.edu
Stefan Cover, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138 USA. scover@oeb.harvard.edu
Last modified: 2 September 2003.
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