Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Identification
Minor worker: head length 0.70mm, head width 0.71mm, scape length 0.66mm, Webers length 0.98mm (n=1). Head evenly rounded behind, with narrow vertex collar; mesonotal suture absent; propodeal spines short, upturned; face densely punctatorugose; clypeus coarsely rugose; mesosoma entirely reticulate rugose, shiny; gastral dorsum smooth and shiny; dorsal pilosity abundant, short, flexuous; color red.
Range
Costa Rica, Panama. Costa Rica: southern Pacific slope.
Natural History
Inhabits wet forest.
Selected Records
Carara (500m): Winkler sample.
San Vito, Finca La Cruces.
Cerro Campana (Panama).
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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