Smithistruma parsauga Bolton manuscript name

Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

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

25 February 1997

Identification
worker lateral view worker face view
Specimen: Costa Rica, Prov. Limon: Res. Biol. Hitoy Cerere, 500m, 30 Aug 1985, J. Longino #0970-s. INBIOCRI002279048. Holotype of Smithistruma parsauga Bolton. Image by J. Longino. Specimen: Costa Rica, Prov. Limon: Res. Biol. Hitoy Cerere, 500m, 30 Aug 1985, J. Longino #0970-s. INBIOCRI002279048. Holotype of Smithistruma parsauga Bolton. Image by J. Longino.

Color red-brown; 6-segmented antennae; face not shiny; posterolateral mesosoma shiny; clypeus broadly curved (not v-shaped) anteriorly; anteromedian section of promesonotum smooth and shining; free posterodorsal face of petiolar node approximately as long as broad and as long as the free postpetiolar disc; anteriomedian clypeal setae projecting from anterior border (anteriomedian clypeal setae very short, not projecting in nigrescens and fridericimuelleri); compound eye composed of about 5 facets (approximately 10 facets in nigrescens and fridericimuelleri).

Geography

Known from a single specimen from 500m elevation in Hitoy Cerere Biological Reserve, Limon Province, Costa Rica.

Natural History

Unknown, but presumed predaceous.

How to collect

The single known specimen was from a Winkler sample (ex sifted leaf litter from forest floor)

Page author: John T. Longino longinoj@evergreen.edu

Last modified: 02/25/1997