Strumigenys noara

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

Nothing is known about the biology of Strumigenys noara.

Identification

Bolton (2000) - A member of the emarginata complex in the Strumigenys emarginata group. This is the only known member of the emarginata-complex to lack spoon-shaped hairs on the pronotum and to have abundant standing pronotal hairs together with a stiff hair at the humerus. It is also the only known member of the complex that has freely laterally projecting hairs on the posterior portion of the dorsolateral margin of the head.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Afrotropical Strumigenys (as Pyramica)

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -28.66667° to -28.66667°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: South Africa (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• noara. Pyramica noara Bolton, 2000: 304 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 125

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 2.3, HL 0.66, HW 0.41, CI 62, ML 0.11, MI 17, SL 0.31, SI 76, PW 0.26, AL 0.64. Characters of emarginata-complex. With head in full-face view dorsolateral margin behind level of eye with 5 - 6 freely laterally projecting curved hairs that are blunt or feebly thickened apically. Ground-pilosity of head short, narrowly spatulate and inconspicuous; appressed ground-pilosity on clypeal dorsum only fractionally broader. Anterior clypeal margin only extremely shallowly concave, almost transverse. With head in profile the dorsum, from just in front of the highest point of the vertex to the occipital margin, with numerous short standing hairs that are simple to slightly flattened, feebly curved anteriorly, and very distinctly differentiated from the ground-pilosity. Pleurae and side of propodeum reticulate to reticulate-punctate everywhere. Pronotum and mesonotum with numerous stout erect simple hairs that are mostly shallowly curved. Pronotal ground-pilosity of extremely sparse narrow subreclinate short simple hairs; without spoon-shaped hairs anywhere on the promesonotal dorsum. Pronotal humerus with a stiff straight hair that is slightly stouter than any other on the pronotal dorsum; the latter weakly sculptured with feeble longitudinal rugulae and scattered punctures.

Type Material

Holotype worker, South Africa: Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Town Bush, iii.1978 (D.J. Brothers) (The Natural History Museum).

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 304, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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