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Biology

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Original Description:

Pyramica parsauga Bolton 2000:157. Holotype worker: Costa Rica, Prov. Limon, Res. Biol. Hitoy-Cerere, 9 degrees 40'N, 83 degrees 02'W, 500m, 30.viii.1985, wet forest, ex sifted leaf litter, #970-s (J. Longino) [BMNH].

Natural History:

Members of the genus are all predaceous, with a static pressure mode of attack (Bolton 1999).

The one specimen of this species was from a wet forest habitat, from a Winkler sample of sifted leaf litter from the forest floor.

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Distribution Notes

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Costa Rica. Known from a single specimen (Prov. Limon: Res. Biol. Hitoy Cerere, 500m, 30 Aug 1985, J. Longino #0970-s. INBIOCRI002279048).

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Taxonomic History

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Pyramica parsauga Bolton, 2000: 157 (w.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007 PDF: 125.
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