Strumigenys menueta

Identification
Bolton (2000) - A member of the ebbae complex in the Strumigenys koningsbergeri-group. The broad and very obvious mandibular lamella, coupled with the secondary spongiform tissue on the side of the petiole, described above, immediately identify menueta and isolate it from all other members of the ebbae-complex.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia, Malaysia.

Nomenclature

 *  menueta. Strumigenys menueta Bolton, 2000: 848, fig. 457 (w.) INDONESIA (Sumatra).

Worker
Holotype. TL 2.5, HL 0.66, HW 0.54, CI 82, ML 0.26, MI 39, SL 0.32, SI 59, PW 0.31, AL 0.68. With characters of ebbae-complex. Preapical tooth conical and slightly recurved, its length equal to or slightly greater than width of mandible at point where it arises. Inner margin of mandible proximal of preapical tooth with a prominent broad translucent lamella that terminates abruptly just proximal of preapical tooth; lamella broadest at its apical truncation, tapering toward base of mandible. Outer margin of mandible more or less straight (at most only extremely weakly differing from straight) from basal inflection to apicodorsal tooth. Preocular concavity in ventrolateral margin of head vestigial, more a slight narrowing of the margin than a concave impression. Upper scrobe margins evenly divergent and shallowly convex from frontal lobes posteriorly; outer arc of eye visible in full-face view. Dorsum of head in profile with short erect hairs along occipital margin, 1-2 on dorsum of occipital lobe, a single pair close to highest point of vertex and at least a single more lateral pair anterior to this. Pronotum with a single pair of standing hairs, close to anterodorsal margin. Mesonotum with a single pair of erect hairs. Katepisternum smooth, metapleuron and side of propodeum mostly to entirely smooth. Lamella on propodea1 declivity with posterior (free) margin shallowly concave. Petiole in profile with ventral spongiform curtain paralleled on the side by a second, narrower spongiform strip; this strip extends along the ventrolateral margin of the petiole, above the ventral spongiform strip, from about the level of the spiracle to about the ventral midlength of the node. Disc of postpetiole smooth. Standing hairs on first gastral tergite simple. Basigastral costulae much shorter than disc of postpetiole.

Paratypes. TL 2.4-2.5, HL 0.64-0.68, HW 0.52-0.54, CI 78-82, ML 0.25-0.27, MI 38-40, SL 0.32-0.34, SI 59-64, PW 0.30-0.32, AL 0.64-0.68 (6 measured).

Type Material
Holotype worker, Indonesia: Sumatra, Jamhi, W Mt Tujuh Lake, 1400 m., 14.xi.1989, #17 (Agosti, Lobl & Burckhardt).

Paratypes. 9 workers with same data as holotype (MHNG, ).