Strumigenys inhonesta

Identification
Bolton (2000) – See notes under Strumigenys akalles.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sulawesi.

Nomenclature

 *  inhonesta. Strumigenys inhonesta Bolton, 2000: 749 (w.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi).

Worker
Holotype. TL 2.2, HL 0.58, HW 0.47, CI 81, ML 0.16, MI 28, SL 0.30, SI 64, PW 0.26, AL 0.60. In full-face view with mandibles fully closed the length of the left preapical tooth is distinctly less than the distance between the base of the tooth and the base of the mandible. Leading edge of scape with fine projecting hairs, the longest of them slightly greater than the maximum width of the scape. Dorsolateral margin of head with abundant freely laterally projecting hairs that are fine, soft and relatively short, shallowly curved and shorter than the length of the scape. Erect hairs on cephalic dorsum and promesonotum fine and soft, relatively short but flexuous to sub flagellate. Clypeus with fine granular to punctulate sculpture, not as strongly sculptured as cephalic dorsum. Promesonotal dorsum finely densely punctulate everywhere.

Paratype. TL 2.1, HL 0.56, HW 0.44, CI 79, ML 0.14, MI 25, SL 0.28, SI 64, PW 0.24, AL 0.58.

Dimensions of non-paratypic workers. HL 0.58-0.60, HW 0.47-0.49, CI 80-82, ML 0.15-0.16, MI 25-27, SL 0.30-0.32, SI 63-67 (3 measured).

Type Material
Holotype worker, Indonesia: Sulawesi Tengah, n r Morowali, Ranu Riv. Area, 27.i.-20.iv.1980, BM 1980-280 (M. J. D. Brendell).

Paratype. 1 worker with same data as holotype.