Apterostigma calverti inhabits lowland rainforest on the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica. Wheeler (1911) described this species from two nest series collected by Calvert in the "Banana River District" and Juan Vi–as. The former is presumably somewhere near the R’o Banano, just south of the port city of Lim—n. The latter is in Cartago province, at 1200m elevation on the old road from San JosŽ to the coast. Both nests were between bromeliad leaves 4m above the ground. Calvert was studying Odonata and I presume was searching phytotelmata for immatures. The ALAS project at La Selva Biological Station collected one worker from a canopy fogging sample.
Costa Rica (type locality).
Taxonomic history
See also: Lattke, 1997 PDF: 143.
