Strumigenys runa

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

Known from wet forest habitat litter-samples.

Identification

Bolton (2000) - A member of the Strumigenys mnemosyne-group. For discussion see under Strumigenys mnemosyne.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.833330154° to 5.833330154°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia (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.

  • runa. Pyramica runa Bolton, 2000: 447 (w.) BORNEO. Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 127

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 1.5, HL 0.40, HW 0.32, CI 80, ML 0.06, MI 18, SL 0.16, SI 50, PW 0.20, AL 0.39. With the characters of the group and answering the general description of mnemosyne, but differing as follows.

1 Leading edge of scape with 1-2 elongate straight hairs that project anterodorsally.

2 Standing hairs on cephalic dorsum finer, longer and denser than in mnemosyne, not obviously arranged in transverse rows.

3 In profile posterior half of pronotal dorsum outline shallowly concave.

4 Standing hairs on dorsal alitrunk numerous and not arranged in distinct pairs.

Type Material

Holotype worker, Malaysia: Sabah, mi. 43 Labuk Rd ex Sandakan (Lungmanis), 13.vi.1968, rainforest berlesate, acc.68.S27 (R. W. Taylor) (Australian National Insect Collection).

References

  • Baroni Urbani, C. & De Andrade, M.L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria” 99: 1-191.
  • Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 447, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • CSIRO Collection
  • Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58