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Strumigenys cochlearis
| Strumigenys cochlearis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Strumigenys |
| Species: | S. cochlearis |
| Binomial name | |
| Strumigenys cochlearis Brown, 1988
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The type material was found under a rock in open, dry sclerophyll forest. Additional localities are also in the dry sclerophyll zone. (Brown 1988)
Identification
Bolton (2000) – A member of the buleru complex in the Strumigenys horvathi-group. See notes under Strumigenys buleru.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -30.51667023° to -36.45000076°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (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. |
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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.
- cochlearis. Strumigenys cochlearis Brown, 1988d: 40, 2 figs. (w.) AUSTRALIA. See also: Bolton, 2000: 974.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker
Bolton (2000) - TL 2.8-3.1, HL 0.66-0.74, HW 0.51-0.59, CI 73-84, ML 0.34-0.40, MI 50-56, SL 0.40-0.46, SI 73-84, PW 0.32-0.35, AL 0.70-0.76 (4 measured).
Characters of buleru-complex and matching the description of that species except as follows. With head in full-face view and mandibles fully closed outer margin of mandible evenly shallowly convex from level of preapical tooth to basal inflection. Conical preapical tooth of mandible subtended by a sharply carinate inner mandibular margin but without a translucent cuticular lamella whose maximum width is one-quarter to one-third the length of the preapical tooth. Sculpture in upper half of scrobe reticulate-punctate, as sharply defined as on cephalic dorsum.
Type Material
Bolton (2000) - Holotype worker, AUSTRALIA: South Australia, Flinders Range, base of Mt Remarkable, 400 m, 24.xi.1951, under rock (W. L. Brown); paratype workers, AUSTRALIA : South Australia, Gawler (A. M. Lea); SA, Dimbulah, McDougal, 19.i.1934 (no collector's name); Victoria, Heathcote, 21.v.1961 (B. B. Lowery); New South Wales, Armidale, 1.ix.1959 (B. B. Lowery) (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Australian National Insect Collection, The Natural History Museum) [examined].
- Holotype, worker, Mt. Remarkable, Flinders Range, South Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Paratype, 1 worker, Gawler, South Australia, Australia, Lea,A.M., ANIC32-017762, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Paratype, 1 worker, Dimbular [Dimboola], Victoria, Australia, McDougal, ANIC32-017763, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Paratype, 5 workers, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, Lowery,B.B., ANIC32-017764, Australian National Insect Collection.
References
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 974, redescription of worker)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1988d. Strumigenys cochlearis species nov. Pilot Regist. Zool. Card No. 40.
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp. (page 168, see also)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bolton, B. 2000. The Ant Tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65