This is one of the most common ants in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica. It is abundant in open areas, disturbed habitats, and second growth vegetation. Nests are in the soil, and workers forage over the surface and into low vegetation.
Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama. Costa Rica: Pacific lowlands and slopes to 1500m.
Taxonomic history
Replacement name for Pheidole radoszkowskii militaris Emery, 1890. [Junior primary homonym of Carebara militaris (Smith, 1860).].Subspecies of Pheidole radoszkowskii: Emery, 1893m PDF: 95 (footnote); Emery, 1896g PDF: 37; Forel, 1899b PDF: 67; Emery, 1922c PDF: 99; Menozzi, 1927c PDF: 267; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 200; Bolton, 1995b: 328.Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 95; Mann, 1922 PDF: 28; Wilson, 2003a: 219 (redescription).
