Poneracantha mecotyle

Millipede feeder captured in litter samples from wet forest. Some specimens found in stomach contents of Dendrobates histronicus.

Identification
A member of the rastrata complex (in the rastrata subgroup of the rastrata species group). Promesonotal suture and metanotal groove impressed but not breaking sculpture; propodeal spiracle opening large and round, right behind teeth; me tacoxal teeth long and sharp; occipital carinae wide and visible in frontal view; anterior clypeal lamella laterally rounded and anteriorly straight to very broadly convex. The cephalic sculpture can vary from evenly costulate to roughly rugose and the petiole length vs. width is also variable. (Lattke 1995)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala.

Nomenclature

 *  mecotyle. Gnamptogenys mecotyle Brown, 1958g: 318, fig. 42 (w.) BOLIVIA. See also: Lattke, 1995: 175.