Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Identification
Minor worker: head length 0.64mm, head width 0.59mm, scape length 0.77mm, Webers length 0.77mm (n=1). Head without vertex collar; promesonotal and metanotal grooves well impressed; propodeal spines short; face, pronotum, and gaster completely smooth and shiny; sides of mesonotum and propodeum foveolate; face, pronotum, and gaster covered with abundant, very long, whitish, flexuous setae; color dark brown.
Major worker: head length 0.97mm, head width 0.92mm, scape length 0.66mm (n=1); face with rugae anterior to eyes, rest of face completely smooth and shiny; hypostomal margin flat with pair of widely-spaced teeth, each tooth sharp and needle-like, located near small recessed tooth flanking mandible; face and pronotum with long, flexuous setae, like worker; gaster with dense brush of long, flexuous setae.
Range
Brazil (RJ; type locality), Colombia, Costa Rica. Costa Rica: Atlantic and southern Pacific slopes to 700m.
Natural History
This species occurs in mature wet forest. It recruits to baits on the forest floor.
Selected Records
La Selva: Berlese sample and forest floor baits.
Guanacaste Conservation Area (Pitilla): Winkler sample.
Corcovado National Park (cloud forest above Rio Nino, 700m elevation): at baits.
Taxonomy
MCZC material from Colombia and Costa Rica is identified as sensitiva by E. O. Wilson.
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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