Strumigenys rogeri

Distribution
This taxon was described from Antilles. It is also found in New Caledonia, Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Canada, United States, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Burundi, Comoros, Seychelles, Réunion, Mayotte, Mauritius, Madagascar, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Northern Mariana Islands and Borneo.

Puerto Rico
Wheeler (1908): Numerous workers and females taken from several colonies nesting under stones in a nearly dry stream bottom behind the Coamo baths. The rediscovery of the female of this species shows that Emery was right in his contention that Roger had described two very different species under the name of Pyrmaica gundlachi (=Strumigenys gundlachi). The females among my specimens agree perfectly with Roger's description and figure (Taf. I, .Fig. 18a).

Nomenclature

 *  rogeri. Strumigenys rogeri Emery, 1890b: 68, pl. 7, fig. 6 (w.) ANTILLES. Forel, 1893g: 378 (q.). Senior synonym of incisa: Donisthorpe, 1915d: 341; of sulfurea: Brown, 1954k: 20. See also: Bolton, 1983: 387; Bolton, 2000: 604.
 * incisa. Strumigenys incisa Godfrey, 1907: 102 (w.) GREAT BRITAIN. Junior synonym of rogeri: Donisthorpe, 1915d: 341.
 * sulfurea. Strumigenys sulfurea Santschi, 1915c: 261 (w.) GABON. Junior synonym of rogeri: Brown, 1954k: 20.

Worker
Bolton (2000) - TL 2.3 - 2.8, HL 0.58 - 0 .74, HW 0.42 - 0.52, CI 69 - 75, ML 0.30 - 0.40, MI 51 - 58, SL 0.36 - 0.46, SI 82 - 89, PW 0.27 - 0.32, AL 0.56 - 0.68 (45 measured). Characters of rogeri-complex''. Mandibles relatively stout and more or less straight through most of their length; not obviously bowed outwards. On each mandible proximal preapical tooth stout and usually no longer than maximum width of mandible, usually slightly shorter. Distal preapical tooth shorter than proximal but nearly as stout. On right mandible distal preapical tooth slightly longer and thicker than on left mandible; not completely concealed by left apicodorsal tooth at full closure.

Type Material
Bolton (2000):

Holotype worker, ST THOMAS I. (West Indies) [examined].

Strumigenys incisa Godfrey, 1907: 102 [attributed to Forel]. Syntype workers, GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland, Edinburgh, hothouse in Royal Botanic Garden, 10.vi.1904 (R. Godfrey) [examined].

Strumigenys sulfurea Santschi, 1915: 261. Syntype workers, GABON: Samkita (F. Faure) [examined].

Additional References

 * Wetterer, J.K. 2012. Worldwide spread of Roger's dacetine ant, Strumigenys rogeri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 16:1-6.


 * Wheeler, W. M. 1908a. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 117-158.