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Calyptomyrmex Emery, 1887

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Overview 
These rare ants are most often encountered as ground foragers or in leaf litter collected from the surface of the ground.  The few nests that have been found were in rotten wood.




This taxon is known from these habitats
The following rows were recorded as a pair from a single record.
Blank entries indicate no information was recorded.
Environment/MacrohabitatSituation/Microhabitat
 Leaf litter 
 logs, trees 
 Sifted litter 
Dry rainforest  
forest leafmould in gallery 
Forest on limestone coral reef  
lowland rainforest leaf litter 
Mesophyll Notophyll vine forest  
Prim. forest Sifted litter, wood 
Rainforest  
Rainforest ground strays 
Rainforest Leaf mould 
Rainforest Leafmould 
Rainforest Litter 
rainforest nest under large log on ground 
Rainforest on stony slope 
Rainforest Sieved litter 
Rainforest by the stream  
reafforestation area in rotten log 
Rubber plantation under large log 
Spray forest rotten wood 
submontane forest  

 

 

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