Pheidole punctatissima Mayr 1870

Natural History:

This species thrives in disturbed areas, and it is often a pest ant. Nests are often in ephemeral cavities: soft rotten sticks, beneath bark flaps, in debris in forks of trees, etc.

Mexico (type locality) to Colombia, questionable record from Cuba (Kempf 1972). Costa Rica: disturbed habitats of Pacific lowlands and montane areas.

Pheidole punctatissima Mayr, 1870a PDF: 400 (s.w.) MEXICO. Neotropic. Primary type information: CASENT0601256; NHMW AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Forel, 1908c PDF: 52 (q.).Senior synonym of Pheidole punctatissima napaea: Brown, 1981 PDF: 525.See also: Wilson, 2003a: 618; Longino & Cox, 2009 PDF: 37; Sarnat et al., 2015 10.3897/zookeys.543.6050 PDF: 68.

[[ worker ]] [[ queen ]] [[ soldier ]] San Juan de Tobosi, 1400 metres; San Jose de Costa Rica, 1600 metres, bois pourri, dans les spathes verthes de Dieffenbachia Oe rstedti; dans une bromeliacee; La Caja, 1100 metres, sous l'ecorce. Costa Rica (Biolley). Guatuso pres Carthago, Costa Rica (Biolley).

Possuo diversos soldados e operários de Costa Rica, San José , H. Schmidt leg. (Reichensperger N.° 165). A espécieé facilmente reconhecível pelo contraste de coloracao das cabeças dos soldados: as mandíbulas , o terço anterior e os lados da cabeçasão pretos, os dois terços posteriores são branco-amarellados.