Strumigenys heteropha

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  heteropha. Strumigenys heteropha Bolton, 2000: 758 (w.) CHINA.

Worker
Holotype. TL 3.2, HL 0.81, HW 0.62, CI 77, ML 0.40, MI 49, SL 0.44, SI 71, PW 0.36, AL 0.88. Mandible in full-face view without preapical dentition, though in oblique dorsolateral view a minute inconspicuous tumulus or cuticular prominence can be seen on the dorsal inner margin close to the apex. Dorsolateral margin of head in full-face view with 3 freely laterally projecting fine flagellate hairs: one just posterior to the level of the eye, one in apicoscrobal position and one close to the occipital corner. Cephalic dorsum with a pair of standing hairs at highest point of vertex and a transverse row across occipital margin. Dorsum of head finely densely reticulate-rugulose, the reticulae small and low, filled with dense reticulate-punctate sculpture. Dorsal alitrunk irregularly finely rugulose and punctulate. Katepisternum smooth, remainder of pleuron and side of propodeum finely punctate. Pronotal humeral hair long and flagellate. Dorsal alitrunk with fine erect sub flagellate to flagellate hairs and fine simple ground-pilosity. Waist segments and first gastral tergite with fine flagellate hairs. Dorsal and lateral surfaces of femora and tibiae with sparse erect flagellate hairs; ventral surface of femora with a few similar hairs and dorsal (outer) surfaces of middle and hind basitarsi with one or two much longer flagellate hairs. Propodeal teeth small and narrowly triangular. Petiole node in dorsal view longer than broad; disc of postpetiole scarcely broader than petiole node; both with dense reticulate-punctulate sculpture and a few superimposed small longitudinal rugulae. Lateral spongiform lobes of petiole in dorsal view terminate well posterior of the anterior slope of the node. Petiole in profile subclavate, node without an anterior face that is differentiated from the peduncle, instead the two forming a single uninterrupted surface.

Type Material
Holotype worker, China: Hong Kong, E Central New Territories, Shan Liu, 31.x.1996 (J. R. Fellowes).