Rogeria gibba Kugler 1994

Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

worker lateral view

worker face view

Range

Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica. Costa Rica: southwestern lowlands.

Identification

Very dense, flexuous, erect hairs on dorsa of head, mesosoma and gaster; no decumbent or appressed pilosity; promesonotum uniformly and densely areolate; metanotum forms an abrupt declivity between promesonotum and propodeum; WL 0.85-0.96mm.

Notes

Kugler (1994) described the species based on material from Ecuador and Colombia. Several collections were from the western slope of the Andes and the coastal range of northern Ecuador. One worker was from the eastern side of the central cordillera in northern Colombia. All the sites were from 300-800m elevation, probably from Berlese samples. We report here the first Costa Rican collections. Longino collected specimens in Winkler samples from 19km S Ciudad Neily, and Rancho Quemado on the Osa Peninsula. Both sites are under 200m elevation.

Additional Images

Queen: lateral view (reduced, original); face view (reduced, original).

Literature Cited

Kugler, C. 1994. Revision of the ant genus Rogeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with descriptions of the sting apparatus. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:17-89.


Page authors:

Grant Ramsey, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.

John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu

Charles Kugler, Radford University, Radford VA 24142 USA.


Date of this version: 23 July 1998
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