Lasiophanes hoffmanni

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Chile.

Biology
This species is very sensitive to environmental dehydration, preferring to live in low temperatures and damp rotting logs. It is crepuscular and nocturnal and usually forages on leaves of shrubs where it visits extrafloral nectaries and captures small Diptera. (Robert Fuentalba Ojeda)

Nomenclature

 *  hoffmanni. Melophorus hoffmanni Forel, 1903c: 266 (w.) CHILE. [Lasius hoffmanni Emery, 1895i: 18. Nomen nudum.] Combination in Melophorus (Lasiophanes): Emery, 1906c: 185; in Lasiophanes: Wheeler, W.M. 1935c: 70. See also: Snelling & Hunt, 1976: 104.