Strumigenys ferocior

Known from a few rainforest litter samples.

Identification
Bolton (2000) - A member of the mayri complex in the Strumigenys mayri-group. Very closely related to Strumigenys missina and Strumigenys mayri; see notes under Strumigenys akhtoi and missina.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia. Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 *  ferocior. Strumigenys ferocior Brown, 1973c: 266, fig. 3 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA. See also: Bolton, 2000: 882.

Worker
Bolton (2000) - TL 2.5-2.7, HL 0.68-0.74, HW 0.46-0.51, CI 68-70, ML 0.35-0.38, MI 49-54, SL 0.46-0.51, SI 96-102, PW 0.26-0.30, AL 0.64-0.72 (20 measured).

Characters of the mayri-complex. Preapical tooth spiniform, its length about equal to maximum width of mandible. Cephalic dorsum with 4-6 erect simple hairs along the occipital margin and a similar pair at level of highest point of vertex. With head in full-face view the upper scrobe margin above the eye not obscuring junction of eye with head capsule, entire eye visible. Preocular notch conspicuous; ventral surface of head with a shallow preocular transverse impression. Pronotal humeral hair simple, pronotum otherwise without erect hairs; mesonotum with one pair of erect simple hairs. Dorsal alitrunk evenly reticulate-punctate. Dorsal surfaces of waist segments and gastral tergites with simple stiff hairs. Katepisternum with a smooth patch on lower half; metapleuron and side of propodeum reticulate-punctate. Propodeum armed with a pair of short spines, length of spine slightly greater than distance separating their bases but less than dorsal width of petiole node. Dorsal (outer) surface of hind basitarsus without long fine erect hairs. Petiole in profile with anterior face of node not markedly less than length of dorsum, in dorsal view petiole node slightly broader than long to about as broad as long. Disc of postpetiole finely and densely reticulate-punctate.

Type Material
Bolton (2000) - Holotype worker, AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, Iron Range, 14.vi.1971, rain forest berlesate (R. W. Taylor & J. Feehan); paratype workers and queen, AUSTRALIA: same lac., 9-15.vi.1971 (Taylor & Feehan) [examined]. Further specimens of both the holotype and paratype series, not seen by Brown (1973c), are present in ANIC.