Members of the genus are all predaceous, with a static pressure mode of attack (Bolton 1999).
This species inhabits wet forest leaf litter. The type specimen (from Tuli Creek, near San Miguel, Nicaragua) was in the stomach of a toad, Dendrobates tinctorius, found on the forest floor (Weber 1934, Brown 1953). In Costa Rica, I obtained a series of workers in a Winkler sample of forest floor litter from the Penas Blancas Valley, at 800m elevation. Project ALAS, at La Selva Biological Station, produced a single worker from a Berlese extraction of a soil/litter core. This is a very low frequency, given the intensity of sampling effort in Costa Rica. Thus this species is either very low density, very patchy in occurrence, or with specialized nesting and foraging habits that make it difficult to collect.
Full Range: Southern Mexico to Costa Rica.
Costa Rican Range: known from two Atlantic slope sites, Penas Blancas Valley (800m elevation) and La Selva Biological Station (50m elevation).
Taxonomic history
Combination in Borgmeierita: Brown, 1953g PDF: 23.Combination in Glamyromyrmex: Brandão, 1991 PDF: 344.Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999 PDF: 1672.Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007 PDF: 119.See also: Bolton, 2000: 173.
