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Dacetini, Myrmicinae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.
26 July 1997
Identification
Specimens of this species were misidentified as micretes in material I sent to Bolton for determination. At this writing I do not know how to distinguish them, and await diagnostic information from Lattke and/or Bolton. The following should apply to micretes and humata equally.
Apical fork of mandible with one intercalary tooth; mandible often with acute preapical tooth very close to apical fork, but may be reduced to small denticle or absent; no other preapical teeth; gaster smooth and shining, with long flagelliform setae.
Range
Costa Rica: mid-elevation northern Atlantic slopes.
Natural History
Brown and Wilson (1959) summarize the genus as follows:
"Widespread in tropics and warm temperate areas. Primarily forest-dwelling; some species occur in grassland and arid scrub. ... Nests mostly in soil and rotting wood; a few species live in arboreal plant cavities in tropical rain forest. Foraging hypogaeic to epigaeic-arboreal. Food: most species are collembolan feeders; a few are polyphagous predators or occasionally feed on sugary substances..."
This species inhabits wet forest leaf litter.
Selected Records
Winkler or Berlese samples from Guanacaste Conservation Area (Pitilla, 600m), Braulio Carrillo National Park (1000m).
Literature Cited
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1962. The neotropical species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: Synopsis and keys to the species. Psyche 69:238-267.
Brown, W. L., Jr., Wilson, E. O. 1959. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Quarterly Review of Biology 34:278-294.
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