Strumigenys enanna

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Strumigenys enanna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Strumigenys
Species: S. enanna
Binomial name
Strumigenys enanna
Bolton, 2000

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Specimen Labels

This species is known from rainforest litter samples.

Identification

Bolton (2000) – A member of the emdeni complex in the Strumigenys horvathi-group. See Strumigenys emdeni.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.05° to -16.52°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • enanna. Strumigenys enanna Bolton, 2000: 975 (w.) AUSTRALIA.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker

Holotype. TL 2.2, HL 0.60, HW 0.48, CI 80, ML 0.23, MI 38, SL 0.29, SI 60, PW 0.29, AL 0.59. Characters of emdeni-complex; closely related to emdeni and answering that description except for the following. Cephalic dorsum densely clothed with pale spoon-shaped to scale-like ground-pilosity but this pilosity not reproduced on promesonotal dorsum where the ground-pilosity is of inconspicuous scattered small hairs. There are a few spoon-shaped hairs on the dorsolateral margins, especially on the posterior half of the pronotum, but the overall appearance of the ground-pilosity is much less dense and much weaker than on the cephalic dorsum. Side of alitrunk entirely reticulate-punctate, without smooth areas anywhere. Disc of postpetiole unsculptured.

Paratypes. TL 2.1-2.2, HL 0.60-0.64, HW 0.48-0.50, CI 78-82, ML 0.22-0.23, MI 35-38, SL 0.28-0.30, SI 57-60, PW 0.29, AL 0.58-0.59 (4 measured).

Type Material

Holotype worker, Australia: Queensland (NEQ), Noah Creek, Cape Trihulation, 16.x.1980, QM Berlesate No. 259, 5 m, rainforest sieved litter (G. B. Monteith) (Australian National Insect Collection). Paratypes. 1 worker with same data as holotype; 2 workers, Australia: North East Queensland, Table Mtn, 10 km. S of Cape Tribulation, 24.iv.1983, QM Berlesate No. 540, 16.09S, 145.26E, 320 m, rainforest, sieved litter (G.B. Monteith & D. Cook); 2 workers, NE Queensland, 2.5 km. W of Cape Tribulation (Site 5), 21.iv.1983, QM Berlesate No. 533, 16.05S, 145.27E, 180 m, rainforest, sieved litter (G.B. Monteith & D. K. Yeates) (ANIC, The Natural History Museum).

References

  • Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 975, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Bolton, B. 2000. The Ant Tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65