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Strumigenys sevesta
| Strumigenys sevesta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Strumigenys |
| Species: | S. sevesta |
| Binomial name | |
| Strumigenys sevesta Bolton, 2000
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Occurs in cloud forest and mid-elevation montane forest down to 300m (Longino, Ants of Costa Rica).
Identification
Bolton (2000) - A member of the Strumigenys emeryi-group. The only species in the group completely to lack spongiform tissue ventrally on the petiole. This, coupled with the absence of a lateral spongiform lobe on the petiole node, is diagnostic.
Longino (Ants of Costa Rica) - Apical fork of mandible with one intercalary tooth; mandible with no preapical teeth; gaster smooth and shining; gaster with erect, linear, somewhat stiffened setaes.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 19.31777° to 9.8712602°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (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.
- sevesta. Strumigenys sevesta Bolton, 2000: 518, figs. 307, 340 (w.) COSTA RICA.
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 2.8, HL 0.70, HW 0.56, CI 80, ML 0.42, MI 60, SL 0.47, SI 84, PW 0.35, AL 0.73. Mandible without trace of preapical dentition. Apicoscrobal hair and pronotal humeral hair flagellate. Both pairs of erect hairs on cephalic dorsum stiff and simple; mesonotum with a similar but more acutely pointed pair of erect hairs. Petiole, postpetiole and first gastral tergite with stiff simple hairs that are erect, shallowly curved and mostly acute apically. Pronotal dorsum reticulate-punctate with superimposed fine rugular sculpture. Mesopleuron smooth, metapleuron and side of propodeum reticulate-punctate. Propodeum with a pair of narrow short spines that are subtended by vestigial carinae down the declivity; no lamellae present and propodeal lacuna absent. Ventral surface of petiole without spongiform tissue except for a minute process at extreme posteroventral angle. Lateral spongiform lobe of petiole node absent or no more than a slight thickening of the apex of the posterior collar. In profile lateral spongiform appendage of postpetiole reduced to a narrow cuticular collar; ventral spongiform lobe very small, much smaller than the area of exposed cuticle of the disc. Petiole node in dorsal view broader than long, reticulate-punctate; disc of post petiole finely reticulate-punctate everywhere. Basigastral costulae minute and feebly defined, much shorter than length of postpetiole disc.
Paratypes. TL 2.7-3.0, HL 0.68-0.74, HW 0.52-0.61, CI 76-82, ML 0.41-0.44, MI 58-62, SL 0.46-0.49, SI 80-88, PW 0.31-0.36, AL 0.70-0.80 (10 measured). As holotype but in some the apices of the mesonotal standing hairs, and of some on the gaster, may be markedly thinner than their shafts and more strongly curved or even hooked. Preapical dentition is uniform throughout type-series, but given its variability in other species of the group some variation should perhaps be expected.
Type Material
Holotype worker, Costa Rica: Provo Puntarenas, Monteverde, 1360 m., 10°18'N, 84°48'W, 16.iv.1988, forest litter sample, ground, #1997-S (J. Longino) (The Natural History Museum).
Paratypes. Costa Rica: 2 workers from same locality but 1500 m., 10.xii.1987, cloud forest litter sample, ground, #1972-S (J. Longino); 1 worker from same locality but 1300 m., 21.xii.1986, wet forest litter sample, #1487-S (J. Longino); 2 workers with same data but 1500 m., 16.iv.1989, wet forest ex sifted leaf litter, #2467-S and #2468-S (J. Longino); 1 worker, Provo Heredia, 1 3 km. SSW Pto Viejo, 10°21'N, 84°03'W, 300 m., 17.vii.1986, wet forest litter sample, #1390-S (J. Longino); 3 workers, Provo Alajuela, 3 km. E Monteverde, 10°18'N, 84°47'W, 1400 m., 26.iv.1990, wet forest ex sifted leaf litter, #2674-S (J. Longino); 2 workers, Provo Alajuela, Rio Penas Biancas, 10°19'N, 84°43'W, 800 m., 26-28.iv.1987, wet forest ex sifted leaf litter, #1579-S (J. Longino) (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, The Natural History Museum, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, John T. Longino Collection).
References
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 518, figs. 307, 340 worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bolton, B. 2000. The Ant Tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65
- Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
- Longino J. T. L., and M. G. Branstetter. 2018. The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants. Ecography 41: 1-12.
- Longino J. T., and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient. Ecosphere 2(3): 16pp.
- Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/
- Valenzuela-Gonzalez J., A. V. Parra-Cabanas, L. Quiroz-Robledo, D. L. Martinez-Tlapa, and E. D. Montes-de-Oca-Torres. 2013. Variación de la mirmecofauna en un gradiente altitudinal en la región central de Veracruz, México. In Formicidae de Mexico (eds. M. Vasquez-Bolanos, G. Castano-Meneses, A. Cisneros-Caballero, G. A. Quiroz-Rocha, and J. L. Navarrete-Heredia) p 75-82.