Strumigenys monoropa

Identification
The only member of the Strumigenys monoropa-group.

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

Nomenclature

 *  monoropa. Strumigenys monoropa Bolton, 2000: 895, figs. 473, 504 (w.) NEW GUINEA.

Worker
Holotype. TL 2.0, HL 0.54, HW 0.44, CI 81, ML 0.20, MI 37, SL 0.28, SI 64, PW 0.25, AL 0.54. Preapical tooth only fractionally shorter than width of mandible at point where it arises, but obviously shorter than maximum width of mandible. Broadest point of mandible in full-face view just proximal of preapical tooth; inner margin shallowly concave from broadest point to base of apicodorsal tooth. Scrobe in profile broad dorsoventrally, deeply concave and with sharply defined margins. Upper scrobe margin in full-face view with a fringe of anteriorly curved fine short hairs; without elongate freely projecting hairs. Eye small, with about 6 ommatidia in total. Bullae of femoral glands present, small but distinct on each leg. Bullae of tibial glands small and inconspicuous on middle and hind legs but on foreleg very large and located on inner surface. Legs without standing hairs of any form on any surface. Propodeal teeth short, acutely triangular. Petiole node in dorsal view broader than long; in profile anterior face of node rounding broadly and evenly into dorsum, without a sharply defined anterodorsal angle. Head, alitrunk, waist segments and gaster blackish brown, appendages lighter.

Type Material
Holotype worker, Papua New Guinea: Gulf Prov., Ivimka camp, Lakekamu Basin, 7.7°S, 146.8°E, 140 m., 6.xi.1996, #96-280 (R. R. Snelling).