Megalomyrmex mondabora

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras.

Nomenclature

 *  mondabora. Megalomyrmex mondabora Brandão, 1990: 442, fig. 95, 96 (w.) COSTA RICA. Longino, 2010: 47 (q.).

Description
Holotype and 2 paratypes from Turialba at Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard,: 1 paratype from Turialba and 1 paratype from Vi­lhena at Museu de Zoologia da USP.
 * Types

Mandibles smooth, dental formula 2+ 10; pal­ pal formula 4:3; anterior clypeal border without median denticle; 13 ocular facets at compound eye largest diameter; occipital margin raised; promesonotal suture not impressed dorsally, mesonotum distinguished from pronotum as a swollen area; metanotal groove entirely rugose; katepistemum smooth; propodeum spiracles lat­erally projected in an angle of 45° from the main axis of the body; declivity in general faintly rugose; epipetiolar carina complete; pedunculate petiole with dorsal margin of node, in side view, concave and ventral face with a anteromedian minute denticle originating a non-translucid lon­gitudinal flange; dorsal margin  of petiolar node, in frontal view, round; ventral process of postpe­tiole rugose. Color: mandibles, antennae and legs brown. Anepistemum, katepistemum and propodeum black, with the rest of the body reddish-brown dark and shinny.
 * Worker

The types of Turialba, collected by W. L. Brown Jr. between 18 and 22 of January, 1973, were found associated with workers of an uniden­tified Apterostigma (Attini). Therefore I choose the name mondabora, meaning robber in Tupi.
 * Etymology