Strumigenys aechme

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

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Specimen Labels

Specimens have been collected from Dipterocarp forest.

Identification

Bolton (2000) - A member of the lyroessa complex in the Strumigenys lyroessa-group. Within the lyroessa-complex three species are characterised by their lack of a pronotal humeral hair and a lack of standing hairs on the dorsolateral margins of the mesonotum: Strumigenys aechme, Strumigenys lyroessa and Strumigenys tantilla. Of the three aechme is recognised by its lack of an apicoscrobal hair and its distinctive gastral pilosity.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.016666667° to 4°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.

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.

  • aechme. Strumigenys aechme Bolton, 2000: 867 (w.) BORNEO.

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 0.74, HW 0.57, CI 77, ML 0.21, MI 28, SL 0.29, SI 51, PW 0.33, AL 0.69. Characters of lyroessa-complex. Upper scrobe margin and leading edge of scape with small curved spoon-shaped hairs. Apicoscrobal hair absent; dorsolateral margin of occipital lobe without projecting hairs (minute ground-pilosity may occur). Cephalic dorsum without standing hairs except for a very short hair at apex of occipital lobe. Pronotal humeral hair absent and dorsal alitrunk entirely lacking standing hairs. Posterior half of first gastral tergite with a few suberect stiff hairs that are either elongate-spatulate or weakly remiform. Surface of first gastral tergite everywhere with ground-pilosity of conspicuous short but quite broad spatulate hairs that are reclinate to appressed. These hairs are distinctly shorter than the suberect main pilosity and are quite widely spaced, the distances between their bases being slightly greater than the lengths of the hairs themselves.

Paratypes. TL 2.3-2.5, HL 0.71-0.76, HW 0.53-0.58, CI 74-77, ML 0.20-0.22, MI 28-30, SL 0.28-0.29, SI 50-53, PW 0.31-0.35, AL 0.66-0.73 (4 measured).

Type Material

Holotype worker, Malaysia: Sarawak, 4th Diy., Gn. Mulu N. P., v.-viii.1978, camp 1, BM 1978-49 (P. M. Hammond & J. E. Marshall) (The Natural History Museum). Paratypes. 8 workers Malaysia: Sarawak, Gn. Matang, 20 km. W Kuching, 600 m., 25.v.1994, mix. Dipterocarp forest, #11a (Lobl & Burckhardt) (Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève, BMNH, Museum of Comparative Zoology).

References

  • Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 867, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Mezger D., and M. Pfeiffer. 2011. Partitioning the impact of abiotic factors and spatial patterns on species richness and community structure of ground ant assemblages in four Bornean rainforests. Ecography 34: 39-48.
  • Mezger D., and M. Pfeiffer. 2011. Partitioning the impact of abiotic factors and spatial patterns on species richness and community structure of ground assemblages in four Bornean rainforest. Ecography 34: 39-48.
  • Mezger, D.; Pfeiffer, M. 2010. Ecological traits indicate niche differentiation in Bornean Dacetine species (Myrmicinae; Formicidae). Ecotropica 16: 51-57.
  • Pfeiffer M., D. Mezger, and J. Dyckmans. 2013. Trophic ecology of tropical leaf litter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - a stable isotope study in four types of Bornean rain forest. Myrmecological News 19: 31-41.
  • Pfeiffer M., and D. Mezger. 2012. Biodiversity Assessment in Incomplete Inventories: Leaf Litter Ant Communities in Several Types of Bornean Rain Forest. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40729. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040760
  • Pfeiffer M., and D. Mezger. 2012. Biodiversity Assessment in Incomplete Inventories: Leaf Litter Ant Communities in Several Types of Bornean Rain Forest. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40729. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040947
  • Pfeiffer M., and D. Mezger. 2012. Biodiversity Assessment in Incomplete Inventories: Leaf Litter Ant Communities in Several Types of Bornean Rain Forest. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40729. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041087
  • 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