Rasopone rupinicola (MacKay and MacKay)

(Fig. 13; Supp Figs. S30 and S31 [online only])

Pachycondyla rupinicola MacKay and MacKay, 2010: 504, figs. 94, 96, 205, 309, 627–631. Holotype worker, paratype queen, male:

Colombia, Valle: Mun. Buenaventura, 4.5 km above R. Aguaclara on old rd. to Cali, 17–19 June 1971 (W. L. Brown, S. Chaplin, R. B. Root, C. Pearson) [MCZC] (examined).

Rasopone rupinicola: Schmidt and Shattuck, 2014: 210 .

Geographic range. Panama, Colombia.

Measurements, worker: HW 1.70, HL 1.95, SL 1.80, CI 87, SI 106 (n = 1).

Comments

This species is much larger than all but one Central American species ( R. titanis from Chiapas, Mexico), with larger eyes and longer scapes. W. L. Brown and colleagues made multiple collections from a lowland wet forest area in southwestern Colombia, ~ 300 m elevation. One label says ‘rocky wet quebrada’. A disjunct collection is from Cerro Campana, a cloud forest site in Panama, 975 m elevation.