Strumigenys macerina
Strumigenys macerina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Strumigenys |
Species: | S. macerina |
Binomial name | |
Strumigenys macerina Bolton, 2000 |
Nothing is known about the biology of Strumigenys macerina.
Identification
Bolton (2000) - A member of the caniophanes complex in the Strumigenys caniophanes-group. See notes under Strumigenys mododonta.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 4.95° 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. |
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. |
Biology
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Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- macerina. Strumigenys macerina Bolton, 2000: 761 (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 3.1, HL 0.84, HW 0.55, CI 65, ML 0.32, MI 38, SL 0.48, SI 87, PW 0.34, AL 0.90. Mandible relatively short, with a preapical tooth. Dorsolateral margin of head in full-face view with 10 or more freely laterally projecting long filiform hairs, most of them arising from prominent tubercles. Shorter laterally projecting hairs also present on ventrolateral margin of head. Cephalic dorsum with numerous erect fine hairs that arise all over the surface from in front of level of eye to occipital margin. Ventral surface of head with shorter, sparser erect hairs. Dorsum of head finely and densely punctate-rugulose. Apical funicular segment moderately constricted basally. Promesonotal dorsum finely densely punctate-rugulose. Pleurae and side of propodeum everywhere densely punctate to reticulate-punctate. Pronotal humeral hair very long. Dorsal alitrunk with abundant erect simple hairs, filiform to sub flagellate, the number of pairs not easily counted; those on dorsolateral margin of mesonotum arise from discrete tubercles. Waist segments and first gastral tergite with abundant similar hairs. Dorsal, ventral and lateral surfaces of hind femur with rows of suberect/erect hairs; dorsal (outer) surfaces of hind tibia and basitarsus each with long erect freely projecting hairs. Propodeal teeth long, much longer than basal width in profile and weakly upcurved. Petiole in profile claviform, in dorsal view much longer than broad.
The single Sumatran specimen measures HL 0.86, HW 0.58, CI 67, ML 0.32, MI 37, SL 0.48, SI 83, PW 0.33, AL 0.89.
Type Material
Holotype worker, Malaysia: Sarawak, 4th Div., G. Mulu N. P., camp 5, x.1977 (H. Vallack) (The Natural History Museum).
References
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 761, worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- 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.0040790
- 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.0040856
- 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.0041051
- 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