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Strumigenys syntacta
| Strumigenys syntacta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Strumigenys |
| Species: | S. syntacta |
| Binomial name | |
| Strumigenys syntacta Bolton, 2000
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Known from two forest litter-samples.
Identification
A member of the arnoldi complex in the Strumigenys arnoldi-group.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: South Africa (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.
- syntacta. Strumigenys syntacta Bolton, 2000: 597, fig. 364 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
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 2.1, HL 0.54, HW 0.43, CI 80, ML 0.25, MI 46, SL 0.32, SI 74, PW 0.27, AL 0.58. Characters of arnoldi-complex. Mandible with outer margin shallowly convex; both preapical teeth in the apical third of mandible length. Distal preapical tooth less than half the length of the spiniform proximal; on left mandible may be reduced to a denticle. Scape weakly flattened, broadest at about the midlength; its leading edge moderately convex but not strongly expanded. Cephalic dorsum with a transverse row of 4 short standing hairs close to occipital margin, and with a pair of standing hairs close to highest point of vertex. Pronotal humeral hair flagellate; side of pronotum almost entirely smooth. Disc of postpetiole smooth and shining. Hairs on first gastral tergite short and stiff, very slightly flattened and expanded apically, appearing narrowly elongate-spatulate or extremely feebly remiform.
Paratypes. TL 2.0-2.2, HL 0.52-0.57, HW 0.42-0.45, CI 79-81, ML 0.24-0.26, MI 44-48, SL 0.32-0.34, SI 73-76, PW 0.26-0.29, AL 0.56-0.58 (5 measured). As holotype but eye showing variation in size.
Type Material
Holotype worker, South Africa: Natal, Weza Forest, 9.iii.1985, for. litter, E-Y 2188 (S. Emlrody-Younga) (Transvaal Museum).
Paratypes. 38 workers with same data as holotype (TVM, South African Museum, The Natural History Museum, Museum of Comparative Zoology).
References
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 597, worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bolton, B. 2000. The Ant Tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65