Strumigenys cochlearis

The type material was found under a rock in open, dry sclerophyll forest. Additional localities are also in the dry sclerophyll zone. (Brown 1988)

Identification
Bolton (2000) – A member of the buleru complex in the Strumigenys horvathi-group. See notes under Strumigenys buleru.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  cochlearis. Strumigenys cochlearis Brown, 1988d: 40, 2 figs. (w.) AUSTRALIA. See also: Bolton, 2000: 974.

Worker
Bolton (2000) - TL 2.8-3.1, HL 0.66-0.74, HW 0.51-0.59, CI 73-84, ML 0.34-0.40, MI 50-56, SL 0.40-0.46, SI 73-84, PW 0.32-0.35, AL 0.70-0.76 (4 measured).

Characters of buleru-complex and matching the description of that species except as follows. With head in full-face view and mandibles fully closed outer margin of mandible evenly shallowly convex from level of preapical tooth to basal inflection. Conical preapical tooth of mandible subtended by a sharply carinate inner mandibular margin but without a translucent cuticular lamella whose maximum width is one-quarter to one-third the length of the preapical tooth. Sculpture in upper half of scrobe reticulate-punctate, as sharply defined as on cephalic dorsum.

Type Material
Bolton (2000) - Holotype worker, AUSTRALIA: South Australia, Flinders Range, base of Mt Remarkable, 400 m, 24.xi.1951, under rock (W. L. Brown); paratype workers, AUSTRALIA : South Australia, Gawler (A. M. Lea); SA, Dimbulah, McDougal, 19.i.1934 (no collector's name); Victoria, Heathcote, 21.v.1961 (B. B. Lowery); New South Wales, Armidale, 1.ix.1959 (B. B. Lowery) [examined].