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Strumigenys prosopis
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Strumigenys |
| Species: | S. prosopis |
| Binomial name | |
| Strumigenys prosopis Bolton, 2000
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Known from a small number of litter-samples from rainforest habitats.
Identification
Bolton (2000) – A member of the prosopis complex in the Strumigenys lyroessa-group. See Strumigenys panopla.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 4.966666667° to 4.199°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia (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.
- prosopis. Strumigenys prosopis Bolton, 2000: 875, fig. 464 (w.) WEST MALAYSIA.
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 1.7, HL 0.48, HW 0.38, CI 79, ML 0.15, MI 31, SL 0.20, SI 53, PW 0.22, AL 0.46. Characters of prosopis-complex. Dorsolateral margin of head with narrowly spoon-shaped curved hairs on upper scrobe margin to level of apex of scrobe; these hairs similar in shape and size to those on leading edge of scape. Posterior to this are shorter, narrower hairs that are more strongly appressed; there is no apicoscrobal hair. Cephalic dorsum with a single standing hair at apex of each occipital lobe, otherwise standing hairs absent. Pronotal humeral hair absent. Dorsum of promesonotum and waist segments without standing hairs. Propodeal declivity with a broad lamella whose posterior margin is confluent with the propodeal tooth to its apex. First gastral tergite with a single pair of erect stiff hairs, near the base. Cephalic dorsum finely and weakly reticulate-punctate, the entire dorsal alitrunk smooth. Dorsum of petiole node unsculptured.
Paratype. TL 1.7-1.8, HL 0.48-0.49, HW 0.38-0.39, CI 78-81, ML 0.15-0.16, MI 31-33, SL 0.20-0.22, SI 53-56, PW 0.22-0.24, AL 0.45-0.50 (3 measured).
Dimensions of non-paratypic workers. HL 0.50-0.52, HW 0.39-0.44, CI 78-84, ML 0.16-0.17, MI 31-34, SL 0.22-0.23, SI 53-56. In some but not all of these the gaster lacks the basal pair of hairs; these may have been lost by abrasion.
Type Material
Holotype worker, Malaysia: Negri Sembilan, Pasoh For. Res., iii.-iv.1994, litter sample, no. 130 (Brendell, Jackson & Ficken) (The Natural History Museum). Paratypes. 2 workers with same data as holotype but litter sample, no. 83; 1 worker with same data but litter sample, no. 86; I worker with same data but fog sample, no. 2-8 (BMNH, Museum of Comparative Zoology).
Determination Clarifications
This species was referred to as Strumigenys sp. 1 and sp. A in Bolton, 1998b: 92, 95.
References
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 875, fig. 464 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.0041089
- 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, 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.