Strumigenys missina

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

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Specimen Labels

The type material was collected from litter-samples in montane rainforest.

Identification

Bolton (2000) - A member of the mayri complex in the Strumigenys mayri-group. See notes under Strumigenys akhtoi for related Malesian species. S. missina is closely related to the mainly Australian Strumigenys ferocior, but that species has longer scapes and a more sharply defined and deeply incised preocular notch. Based on material currently available it does not appear to be con specific with missina but if intermediates are found in western New Guinea the situation will need review.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia, New Guinea (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.

  • missina. Strumigenys missina Bolton, 2000: 888, fig. 466 (w.) NEW GUINEA.

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 2.4, HL 0.67, HW 0.50, CI 75, ML 0.33, MI 49, SL 0.42, SI 84, PW 0.28, AL 0.65. Characters of the mayri-complex. Preapical tooth spiniform, its length about equal to maximum width of mandible. Cephalic dorsum with 4-6 erect simple hairs along the occipital margin and a similar pair at level of highest point of vertex. With head in full-face view the upper scrobe margin above the eye sufficiently expanded to obscure the junction of the eye with the head capsule, but outer curvature of eye visible. Preocular notch present but not as broad and deep as elsewhere in the complex; ventral surface of head with a shallow preocular transverse impression. Pronotal humeral hair simple, pronotum otherwise without erect hairs; mesonotum with one pair of erect simple hairs. Dorsal alitrunk evenly reticulate-punctate. Dorsal surfaces of waist segments and gastral tergites with simple stiff hairs. Katepisternum with a smooth patch on lower half; metapleuron and side of propodeum reticulate-punctate. Propodeum armed with a pair of short spines, length of spine slightly greater than distance sFeparating their bases but less than dorsal width of petiole node. Dorsal (outer) surface of hind basitarsus without long fine erect hairs. Petiole in profile with anterior face of node not markedly less than length of dorsum, in dorsal view petiole node slightly broader than long. Disc of postpetiole finely and densely reticulate-punctate.

Paratypes. TL 2.4-2.5, HL 0.67-0.69, HW 0.49-0.50, CI 72-75, ML 0.32-0.34, MI 47-49, SL 0.40-0.44, SI 84-88, PW 0.28-0.32, AL 0.64-0.70 (6 measured).

Type Material

Holotype worker, Indonesia: Irian Jaya, PT. Freeport Concession, Wapoga camp, 3.14°S, 136.57°E, 3700 ft, 22.iv.1998, #1998-161, montane primary rainforest, ex sifted mixed leaf litter (R. R. Snelling) (Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History). Paratypes. 2 queens with same data as holotype; 4 workers with same data but 3600 ft, #1998-160; 8 workers with same data but 3450 ft, #1998-193 (LACM, The Natural History Museum).

References

  • Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 888, fig. 466 worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.