This species occurs in wet forest habitats, from sea level to about 1000 m elevation. Minor workers are collected at baits and in litter samples. Nests are in clay soil.
Stefan Cover collected a colony in Peru. The colony was collected in clay soil at the base of a tree in terra firme rainforest. The nest was 12 cm deep and contained a single queen, five majors, and about 200 minors.
Longino collected two colonies in Nicaragua:
JTL7503, nest in clay bank in dry stream channel; more than 10 separate small chambers distributed irregularly in soil behind surface, connected by tunnels; each chamber 1-2 cm; chambers contained brood, minors, majors, adult males; I never saw one of the phragmotic soldiers using its head to block entrances.
JTL7511: incipient nest in exposed vertical clay soil of trail edge; entrance a natural crack in soil with small amount of excavated soil around entrance; nest a single shallow chamber with queen.
Southern Mexico to Peru, across northern South America to Guyana.
Taxonomic history
Combination in Pheidole (Scrobopheidole): Emery, 1922c PDF: 112.See also: Wilson, 2003a: 545.
