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Paussinae from the New World

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Tribe Ozaenini

Entomoantyx Ball and McCleve 1990

 

 

Average size: 4-5 mm

Distribution: Veracruz, Mexico; Costa Rica

Collecting notes: under bark of fallen trees, running on the bark of standing trees at night, at UV lights

Ozaena Olivier 1812

 

 

Average size: 14-20 mm

Distribution: Arizona, Mexico, throughout Central and South America

Collecting notes: running on the bark of standing trees at night, at UV lights

Pachyteles Perty 1830

 

 

Average size: 1.3-6 mm

Distribution: Arizona, Texas, Mexico, throughout Central and South America

Collecting notes: running on the bark of standing trees at night, under bark of fallen trees, at UV lights

Physea Brulle 1834

Average size: 10-12 mm
Distribution: Arizona, Texas, Mexico, throughout Central America
Collecting notes: in the refuse piles of the leaf cutter ant, Atta, and at UV lights

Physeomorpha Ogueta 1963

 

 

Average size: 16 mm

Distribution: Argentina

Habitat: in the refuse piles of the leaf cutter ant, Atta sexdens, and at UV lights

Platycerozaena Banninger 1927

 

 

Average size: 6-8 mm

Distributed throughout Central America and northern South America

Collecting notes: running on the bark of standing trees at night, at UV lights

Tribe Paussini

Homopterus Westwood 1838

 

 

Average size: 7-12 mm

Distribution: southern Mexico, Central America and South America

Collecting notes: at UV lights


All images copyright © 2001 Wendy Moore, except dancing paussines copyright © 2001 Hugo Fierros.