Octostruma rugiferoides Brown & Kempf 1960

The types were collected by E. O. Wilson in leaf litter of dry, rocky, tropical evergreen forest. New material collected by the LLAMA project was in scrubby wet forest of eastern Chiapas and the seasonal evergreen forests of the Tikal region in Guatemala. All specimens were from Winkler samples of sifted leaf litter from the forest floor.

Mexico, Guatemala.

Face crossed by a clearly defined arcuate carina; anterior portion of face concave, differentiated from posterior portion, delimited by frontal carinae and facial arc; antennal scrobe deep and conspicuous with distinct posterior and ventral margins; face anterior to facial arc shallowly rugulose; posterior margin of vertex with pair of erect setae; facial arc joins dorsal margin of scrobe anterior to eye; eye minute, composed of < 5, partially fused ommatidia.

A cryptic inhabitant of forest floor leaf litter and rotten wood; southern Mexico and Guatemala.

Octostruma rugiferoides Brown & Kempf, 1960 PDF: 200, fig. 20 (w.) MEXICO. Neotropic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Longino, 2013b PDF: 49 (q.).