Strumigenys vilhenai

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

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Specimen Labels

A rarely collected species, one specimen is noted as being found in Atlantic forest.

Identification

Bolton (2000) - A member of the lanuginosa complex in the Strumigenys hindenburgi-group. Quickly distinguished from Strumigenys lanuginosa by the presence in that species of two flagellate hairs on the upper scrobe margin. Given the known variation in size of the proximal preapical denticle in some members of this group it is possible that samples of vilhenai may be found in which it is completely absent, but in material examined to date the denticle is present in vilhenai (though minute) and always absent in lanuginosa.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -0.631944444° to -9.546389°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Brazil (type locality), Ecuador.

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.

  • vilhenai. Strumigenys vilhenai Bolton, 2000: 522 (w.) BRAZIL.

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 0.58, HW 0.42, CI 72, ML 0.35, MI 60, SL 0.36, SI 86, PW 0.26, AL 0.60. With characters of lanuginosa-complex. Mandible with a small preapical tooth that is close to the apicodorsal tooth. Proximal of this there is a minute denticle that may be difficult to discern. Upper scrobe margin with a single long fine flagellate hair, the apicoscrobal. Eye relatively large, with 7 ommatidia in the longest row, its maximum diameter about equal to the length of the preapical (fifth) antennal segment. Mesopleuron and metapleuron mostly smooth and shining.

Paratype. TL 2.3, HL 0.55, HW 0.39, CI 71, ML 0.34, MI 62, SL 0.34, SI 87, PW 0.24, AL 0.58.

Type Material

Holotype worker, Brazil: Macapa-Amapa, Rod. Duque de Caixas, km. 9, 19.x.1997, No. 17L (J. M. Vilhena) (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia). Paratype. 1 worker with same data as holotype (The Natural History Museum).

References

  • Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 522, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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