Rasopone pluviselva

Rasopone pluviselva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Rasopone
Species:	R. pluviselva
Binomial name
	Rasopone pluviselva; Longino & Branstetter, 2020

Identification

Keys including this Species

Rasopone Identification

Distribution

Honduras (La Mosquitia) to Panama.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (type locality), Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Biology

Castes

Phylogeny

Rasopone

Rasopone cubitalis

Rasopone politognatha

	Rasopone cryptergates

	Rasopone pluviselva

Rasopone guatemalensis

Rasopone minuta

	Rasopone minuta

	Rasopone panamensis

Rasopone lunaris

Rasopone costaricensis

Rasopone ferruginea

	Rasopone mesoamericana

	Rasopone subcubitalis

Relationships among selected species of Rasopone by Longino & Branstetter (2020). Undescribed species included by Longino & Branstetter have been excluded here.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

pluviselva. Rasopone pluviselva Longino & Branstetter, 2020: 25, fig. 10 (w.q.) COSTA RICA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, PANAMA.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 6 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Costa Rica: Heredia, La Selva Biological Station, 10.4171, -84.02216±20 m., 50 m., 13.vi.2005, TEAM, AMI-1-W-036-06, mature wet forest, ex sifted leaf litter; paratypes: 1 worker with same data but 10.41561, -84.02097±20 m., 50 m., 3.ii.2005, AMI-1-W-023-02, 1 worker 7 km. SW Pto Viejo, 10.40132, -84.03892±20 m., 160 m., 3.iii.2005, AMI-2-W-031-01, 1 worker 10.40395, -84.04011±20 m., 160 m., 16.vi.2005, AMI-2-W-042-10, 1 worker 10.40601, -84.04189±20 m., 160 m., 2.ii.2007, AMI-2-W-116-08, 2 workers 11 km. ESE La Virgen, 10.35, -84.05±2 km., 300 m., 15.ii.2004, ALAS, 03/WF/01/13..
- Type-depositories: Universidad de Costa Rica (holotype); California Academy of Sciences, Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Museum of Comparative Zoology, University of California, Davis, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, National Museum of Natural History (paratypes).
- Distribution: Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.

Description

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