Strumigenys inhonesta

Known from a small number of collections from wet forest. One was a nest collection from a clay bank and another was made from the litter.

Identification
Bolton (2000) – A member of the Strumigenys akalles-group. 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.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Bolton, B. 2000. The Ant Tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65
 * Pfeiffer M., and D. Mezger. 2012. Biodiversity Assessment in Incomplete Inventories: Leaf Litter Ant Communities in Several Types of Bornean Rain Forest. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40729. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040789
 * Pfeiffer M., and D. Mezger. 2012. Biodiversity Assessment in Incomplete Inventories: Leaf Litter Ant Communities in Several Types of Bornean Rain Forest. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40729. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040898
 * Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
 * Woodcock P., D. P. Edwards, T. M. Fayle, R. J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S. H. Bottrell, and K. C. Hamer. 2011. The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 366: 3256-3264.
 * Woodcock P., D.P. Edwards, T.M. Fayle, R.J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S.H. Bottrell, and K.C. Hamer. 2011. The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366: 3256-3264.