Rasopone JTL030

(Fig. 12; Supp Fig. S36 [online only])

Geographic range. Panama (Darien).

Diagnosis

Mandible striate; anterior clypeal margin truncate; side of head with short erect setae; petiolar node tapering, scale-like. Among the three species in Darien, R. JTL027 is much smaller and R. JTL029 (Fig. 12; Supp Fig. S35 [online only]) has a more cuboidal petiolar node.

Measurements, worker: HW 1.40, HL 1.58, SL 1.15, PTL 0.61, PTH 1.08, CI 88, SI 82, PTI 57 (n = 1).

Biology

This species is known from one worker, from a montane wet forest site at 1,190 m elevation. It was collected in a Winkler sample of forest floor litter and rotten wood.

Comments

See Rasopone JTL027.