From MacKay 1993:Little is known of this common species. Nests are usually found in hollow twigs, up to 800 meters in elevation. It commonly occurs in disturbed habitats and is often imported into the United States on banana debris and on orchids. Workers rapidly escape when the nest is opened. This species nests together with stingless bees (Harada, pers. comm.) and with Camponotus sp. in mangrove swamps. Loose sexuals have been collected in Feb. (Guatemala, Guiana), April (Panama, Peru), May (Mexico), June (Guiana), Sept. and Nov. (Brasil).[MacKay Literature Cited]
In Costa Rica, I know this species from one stray worker I collected at San Pedrillo in Corcovado National Park. However, the types of D. championi, a junior synonym of diversus, were collected by Tonduz in Costa Rica. I twice collected the species in the Santa Marta area of Colombia, once in a 9mm diameter dead stem, and once in a 10mm diameter live stem of a Brosimum(?) with large, pink scale insects on the interior walls.
Mexico south to Bolivia and southern Brazil. Costa Rica: southern Pacific lowlands.
Taxonomic history
MacKay, 1993b PDF: 52 (q.m.); Dubovikoff & Coronado-Blanco, 2017 10.1134/S001387381709010X PDF: 1327 (w.q.m.).Combination in Hypoclinea: Kempf, 1972b PDF: 119.Combination in Dolichoderus: Shattuck, 1992c PDF: 77.Senior synonym of Dolichoderus championi: MacKay, 1993b PDF: 50.Senior synonym of Dolichoderus germaini garbei: MacKay, 1993b PDF: 50.Senior synonym of Dolichoderus germaini leviusculus: MacKay, 1993b PDF: 50.Senior synonym of Dolichoderus mazaruni: MacKay, 1993b PDF: 50.Senior synonym of Dolichoderus championi ornatus: MacKay, 1993b PDF: 50.Senior synonym of Dolichoderus championi taeniatus: MacKay, 1993b PDF: 50.Senior synonym of Dolichoderus championi trinidadensis: MacKay, 1993b PDF: 50.See also: Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 48; Ortiz & Fernández, 2011 PDF: 70.Literature records: Cordillera (Forel 1909, as “ leviusculus Emery ”).
Probable misidentification of D. germaini .
Dolichoderus diversus is a species of ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Emery in 1894, the species has a widespread distribution in multiple countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.[1][2][3]
Dolichoderus diversus is a species of ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Emery in 1894, the species has a widespread distribution in multiple countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.
