Strumigenys noara

Identification
Bolton (2000) - A member of the emarginata complex in the Strumigenys emarginata  group. This is the only known member of the emarginata-complex to lack spoon-shaped hairs on the pronotum and to have abundant standing pronotal hairs together with a stiff hair at the humerus. It is also the only known member of the complex that has freely laterally projecting hairs on the posterior portion of the dorsolateral margin of the head.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: South Africa.

Nomenclature

 *  noara. Pyramica noara Bolton, 2000: 304 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 125

Worker
Holotype. TL 2.3, HL 0.66, HW 0.41, CI 62, ML 0.11, MI 17, SL 0.31, SI 76, PW 0.26, AL 0.64. Characters of emarginata-complex. With head in full-face view dorsolateral margin behind level of eye with 5 - 6 freely laterally projecting curved hairs that are blunt or feebly thickened apically. Ground-pilosity of head short, narrowly spatulate and inconspicuous; appressed ground-pilosity on clypeal dorsum only fractionally broader. Anterior clypeal margin only extremely shallowly concave, almost transverse. With head in profile the dorsum, from just in front of the highest point of the vertex to the occipital margin, with numerous short standing hairs that are simple to slightly flattened, feebly curved anteriorly, and very distinctly differentiated from the ground-pilosity. Pleurae and side of propodeum reticulate to reticulate-punctate everywhere. Pronotum and mesonotum with numerous stout erect simple hairs that are mostly shallowly curved. Pronotal ground-pilosity of extremely sparse narrow subreclinate short simple hairs; without spoon-shaped hairs anywhere on the promesonotal dorsum. Pronotal humerus with a stiff straight hair that is slightly stouter than any other on the pronotal dorsum; the latter weakly sculptured with feeble longitudinal rugulae and scattered punctures.

Type Material
Holotype worker, South Africa: Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Town Bush, iii.1978 (D.J. Brothers).