This species is found in mature wet forest habitats. It nests in the low arboreal zone, in dead sticks, in dead cavities in live plants, and as an occasional opportunist in domatia of myrmecophytes.
Costa Rica, Trinidad, Guyana (type locality), Brazil (Amazonian Brazil and Mato Grosso), Ecuador, Peru. Costa Rica: Atlantic slope.
Taxonomic history
Senior synonym of Pheidole cramptoni petiolicola: Kempf & Brown, 1968 PDF: 97.See also: Wilson, 2003a: 677.
