Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Identification
Minor worker: head length 1.04mm, head width 0.82mm, scape length 1.43mm, Webers length 1.40mm (n=1). Head with vertex collar present but small; promesonotal and metanotal grooves well impressed; propodeal spines very long and spiniform; face smooth and shining; pronotum largely smooth and shining, with faint and patchy punctation; anepisternum foveolate; katepisternum foveolate with longitudinal rugae; propodeum foveolate on sides and dorsum; pilosity long, coarse, dark brown.
Major worker: head length 1.65mm, head width 1.57mm, scape length 1.34mm (n=1). Face generally shiny with faint punctation over most of surface, smooth and shiny medial patch, irregular rugae on anterior third; sides of head with abundant, coarse, dark brown, erect setae.
Range
Costa Rica: southern Pacific slope highlands.
Natural History
Known from single collection from San Vito area (Wilson Botanical Garden): moist forest; under dead wood.
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
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