nimet breadcrumb-navigoinnissa
Brown and Wilson (1959) summarize the genus as follows: "Widespread in tropics and warm temperate areas. Primarily forest-dwelling; some species occur in grassland and arid scrub. ... Nests mostly in soil and rotting wood; a few species live in arboreal plant cavities in tropical rain forest. Foraging hypogaeic to epigaeic-arboreal. Food: most species are collembolan feeders; a few are polyphagous predators or occasionally feed on sugary substances..."
Members of the genus are all predaceous, with a kinetic mode of attack (Bolton 1999).
trinidadensis occurs in wet forest habitat in Costa Rica. It is known from arboreal foragers on low vegetation.
Costa Rica, Trinidad, Brazil, Amazonian Bolivia. In Costa Rica: mid-elevation Atlantic slope.
Taxonomic history
Brown, 1954l PDF: 61 (m.).See also: Bolton, 2000: 566.Strumigenys trinidadensis is een mierensoort uit de onderfamilie van de Myrmicinae.[1][2] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1922 door Wheeler, W.M..
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