Strumigenys vindala

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Strumigenys vindala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Strumigenys
Species: S. vindala
Binomial name
Strumigenys vindala
Bolton, 2000

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Specimen labels

Known from two collections, one from montane forest and the other from rainforest litter.

Identification

Bolton (2000) - A member of the ebbae complex in the Strumigenys koningsbergeri-group. The inclined small preapical tooth, straight mandible without a lamella, distinct preocular impression, jagged upper scrobe margin and distribution of erect pilosity, combine to identify this species.

The shape and size of the preapical tooth in vindala is intermediate between the two complexes of this group. Although it is weakly inclined, rather than at a right-angle to the long axis of the mandible, the preapical tooth is longer than its basal width, larger and more strongly developed than in any member of the koningsbergeri-complex.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.

  • vindala. Strumigenys vindala Bolton, 2000: 856, fig. 452 (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 2.2, HL 0.61, HW 0.52, CI 85, ML 0.24, MI 39, SL 0.29, SI 56, PW 0.27, AL 0.58. With characters of ebbae-complex. Preapical tooth short triangular and slightly inclined toward apex, located close to apicodorsal spiniform tooth; length of preapical tooth less than one-third the width of mandible at point where it arises. Inner and outer margins of mandible approximately straight proximal of preapical tooth. Ventrolateral margin of head with a conspicuous preocular concavity. Upper scrobe margins broadly divergent posteriorly, eye invisible in full-face view; edge of upper scrobe margin jagged, with a series of small triangular peaks or tubercles and with a narrowly spatulate small hair arising from each peak. Dorsum of head in profile with short erect hairs along occipital margin, 1-2 on dorsum of occipital lobe and a single pair at highest point of vertex; without erect hairs anterior to this. Pronotum with a single pair of short standing hairs, close to anterodorsal margin. Mesonotum with a single pair of short erect hairs. Katepisternum, metapleuron and side of propodeum smooth. Bullae of femoral glands absent from middle and hind legs. Lamella on propodeal declivity well developed, with posterior (free) margin straight to shallowly convex. Disc of post petiole smooth. Standing hairs on first gastral tergite blunt, many of them slightly flattened and expanded apically. Basigastral costulae shorter than disc of postpetiole.

Type Material

Holotype worker, Malaysia: Sarawak, Gn. Penrissen, 1000 m., 23.v.1994, edge prim. montane for., #9a (Lobl & Burckhardt) (Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève).

References

  • Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65:1-1028. (page 856, fig. 452 worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • 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