Megalomyrmex symmetochus Wheeler, 1925

Brandão, Carlos Roberto F., 2003, Further Revisionary Studies On The Ant Genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini) C R F. B Abstract, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 43 (8), pp. 145-159 : 155

Megalomyrmex symmetochus Wheeler, 1925

New records for M. symmetochus are as follows: Rio Manacapuim, Amazonas state, Brazil, collected in March 27, 1967 by the Expedição Permanente da Amazônia ( MZSP), and recovered from MZSP Isoptera collection # 1382; one sample from the MCZ collected at 15 Km N of Puerto Maldonado, Tambopata Province, Cuzco Amazonico, Peru, in June 23 1989 by S.P. Cover and J. Tobin (CA-426), at elevation of 200 m. There are two workers of a minute attine Sericomyrmex with the same number are labeled as host for M. symmetochus . The type series of this species has also been collected within a nest of the much bigger Sericomyrmex amabilis ( Wheeler, 1925:162) . A sample from Belém ( IPEAN), Pará state, Brazil, was recovered from an unidentified Trachymyrmex nest.

The locality record for this species “Hamburg Farm” as cited in Brandão (1990) is located along the Rio Raventazon, Limón province, Costa Rica.