Species: Strumigenys idiogenes

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Distribution:

Costa Rica (known from one specimen from agricultural area near Guapiles).

Biology:

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..."

Members of the genus are all predaceous, with a kinetic mode of attack (Bolton 1999).

I know this species from one specimen (the holotype), a worker collected by Bob Matlock, in an intercept trap in an agricultural area near Guapiles.

References:

Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 33:1639-1689.

Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini, with a revision of the Strumigenys species of the Malagasy Region by Brian L. Fisher, and a revision of the Austral epopostrumiform genera by Steven O. Shattuck. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.

Brown, W. L., Jr., Wilson, E. O. 1959. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Quart. Rev. Biol. 34:278-294.

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Specimen Data Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in Project 5

Collected most commonly using these methods or in the following microhabitats: 1 times intercept trap

Elevations: collected at 20 m

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