Holcoponera strigata

A dweller of wet montane transandean forests, commonly taken in leaf litter samples.

Identification
A member of the strigata complex (in the strigata subgroup of the striatula species group). Roughly costate; anterior postpetiolar surface fairly flat and with 3-4 transverse costae; abundant long, subdecumbent and suberect hairs on body. Aside from aspects covered by Kempf & Brown (1968), other characters that vary are the size of the propodeal spiracle, costulation of the propodeal declivity and the shape of the node. (Lattke 1995)

Key to New World Gnamptogenys Species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Suriname.

Nomenclature

 *  strigata. Polyrhachis strigata Norton, 1868c: 4 (w.) MEXICO. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1964b: 450 (l.). Combination in Ectatomma (Holcoponera): Emery, 1892b: 167; in Holcoponera: Emery, 1911d: 41; in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 229. Senior synonym of concentrica: Dalla Torre, 1893: 26; Emery, 1896g: 44 (in key); of simplex (and its junior synonyms foreli, satzgeri, spurium): Kempf & Brown, 1968: 90. See also: Lattke, 1995: 187.
 * satzgeri. Ectatomma (Holcoponera) satzgeri Forel, 1908b: 39 (w.q.) COSTA RICA. Combination in Holcoponera: Emery, 1911d: 40. Subspecies of simplex: Santschi, 1929h: 461. Junior synonym of simplex: Brown, 1956b: 490.
 * simplex. Ectatomma (Holcoponera) simplex Emery, 1896g: 46, pl. 1, fig. 7 (w.q.) COSTA RICA. Combination in Holcoponera: Emery, 1911d: 40; in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 229. Senior synonym of foreli, satzgeri, spurium: Brown, 1956b: 490. Junior synonym of strigata: Kempf & Brown, 1968: 90.
 * spurium. Ectatomma (Holcoponera) simplex subsp. spurium Forel, 1908b: 39 (w.) GUATEMALA. Combination in Holcoponera: Emery, 1911d: 40. Junior synonym of simplex: Brown, 1956b: 490.
 * concentrica. Gnamptogenys concentrica Mayr, 1870b: 964 (w.) MEXICO. Combination in Ectatomma (Holcoponera): Mayr, 1887: 540. Junior synonym of strigata: Dalla Torre, 1893: 26; Emery, 1896g: 44 (in key).
 * foreli. Holcoponera simplex st. foreli Santschi, 1929h: 460, fig. 34 (w.m.) COSTA RICA. Junior synonym of simplex: Brown, 1956b: 490.