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Strumigenys fuarda
| Strumigenys fuarda | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Strumigenys |
| Species: | S. fuarda |
| Binomial name | |
| Strumigenys fuarda Bolton, 2000
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This species is known from the holotype worker that was collected from a soil core sample.
Identification
The only member of the Strumigenys fuarda-group.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 4.966666667° to 4.95°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.
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.
- fuarda. Strumigenys fuarda Bolton, 2000: 784, fig. 430 (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 2.7, HL 0.83, HW 0.75, CI 90, ML 0.25, MI 30, SL 0.38, SI 51, PW 0.34, AL 0.74. Of the two intercalary denticles in the apical fork the upper is much smaller than the lower. In full-face view preapical tooth located very close to apicodorsal tooth. Head broad and with a more or less flat dorsum, densely reticulate-punctate and clothed with short, broadly spatulate ground-pilosity that is apressed or only slightly elevated. Occipital margin dorsally with a row of small standing hairs that are no longer than the ground-pilosity but are more slender and obviously more erect; cephalic dorsum otherwise without standing hairs. In full-face view upper scrobe margins evenly divergent, with a row of anteriorly curved short spatulate hairs that are on average slightly shorter but slightly broader than those on the leading edge of the scape. Posterior to apicoscrobal hair the dorsolateral margin with small curved hairs only, without other freely projecting hairs. Entire side of alitrunk, and its dorsum, reticulate-punctate; pronotal dorsum also with some weak rugulae and with ground-pilosity as head. Pronotum without standing hairs except for the humeral pair. Mesonotum with 3 pairs of short stout erect hairs that are spatulate to remiform. Waist segments and first gastral tergite with stout standing hairs that are spatulate to remiform, more erect on gaster than on waist segments. Ventral spongiform curtain of petiole deep, at maximum at least equal to depth of peduncle. Petiole node in dorsal view reticulate-punctate, very slightly broader than long. Disc of postpetiole less strongly punctate and with some weak longitudinal rugulae. Basigastral costulae longer than disc of postpetiole.
Type Material
Holotype worker, Malaysia: Sarawak, 4th Div., Go. Mulu NP, x.1977, soil core (N. M. Collins) (The Natural History Museum).
References
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 784, worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- 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.0040918
- 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
- Woodcock P., D. P. Edwards, R. J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S. H. Bottrell, and K. C. Hamer. 2013. Impacts of Intensive Logging on the Trophic Organisation of Ant Communities in a Biodiversity Hotspot. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60756. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060756
- Woodcock P., D. P. Edwards, T. M. Fayle, R. J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S. H. Bottrell, and K. C. Hamer. 2011. The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 366: 3256-3264.
- Woodcock P., D.P. Edwards, T.M. Fayle, R.J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S.H. Bottrell, and K.C. Hamer. 2011. The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366: 3256-3264.