Carebara urichi

This minute ant was previously known only from the type specimens collected in nests of the Guacharos (Steatornis), in a cave in Trinidad. Very recently Prof. A. S. Pearse has sent me two specimens which he found on bat guano in a cave in Yucatan. Its occurrence in leaf-mold in Cuba is not surprising since other minute cave-insects are known to live occasionally in similar situations, but we should expect it to be more abundant in some of the many bat-infested caves of the island. (Wheeler 1937)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Castes

 * Major Worker

Nomenclature

 *  urichi. Spelaeomyrmex urichi Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 45, fig. 1 (w.) TRINIDAD. Fernández, 2004a: 206 (s.q.m.). Combination in Erebomyrma: Wilson, 1962a: 63; Wilson, 1986b: 61; in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300; in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 205. Senior synonym of eidmanni, morai, nevermanni: Fernández, 2004a: 205.
 * nevermanni. Erebomyrma nevermanni Mann, 1926: 103 (w.) COSTA RICA. Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124; in Erebomyrma: Wilson, 1986b: 61; in Oligomyrmex: Bolton, 1995b: 299. Junior synonym of urichi: Fernández, 2004a: 205.
 * morai. Erebomyrma morai Menozzi, 1931b: 271, fig. 7 (w.) COSTA RICA. Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124; in Erebomyrma: Brandão, 1991: 343; in Oligomyrmex: Bolton, 1995b: 299. Junior synonym of urichi: Fernández, 2004a: 205.
 * eidmanni. Erebomyrma eidmanni Eidmann, 1936: 47 (attributed to Menozzi) (s.w.q.) BRAZIL. Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 123; in Erebomyrma: Wilson, 1986b: 61; in Oligomyrmex: Bolton, 1995b: 299. Junior synonym of urichi: Fernández, 2004a: 205.