Strumigenys hoplites

The only collection of this species was taken from a rotten log in a rainforest.

Identification
Bolton (2000) – A member of the mayri complex in the Strumigenys mayri-group. See Strumigenys akhtoi.

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

Nomenclature

 *  hoplites. Strumigenys hoplites Brown, 1973c: 266, fig. 2 (w.) NEW GUINEA. See also: Bolton, 2000: 885.

Worker
TL 2.5-2.6, HL 0.70-0.76, HW 0.48-0.54, CI 67-71, ML 0.40-0.42, MI 55-57, SL 0.48-0.52, SI 96-100, PW 0.27-0.28, AL 0.67-0.72 (5 measured).

Characters of the mayri-complex. Preapical tooth spiniform, longer than maximum width of mandible. Dorsolateral margin of head with a single freely laterally projecting simple hair, the apicoscrobal. Cephalic dorsum with 4-6 erect simple hairs along the occipital margin and a similar pair at level of highest point of vertex. Preocular notch strongly present; ventral surface of head with a preocular transverse impression posterior to the deeply incised postbuccal groove. Pronotal humeral hair simple, pronotum otherwise without erect hairs; mesonotum with one pair of erect simple hairs. Dorsal alitrunk evenly reticulate-punctate. Dorsal surfaces of waist segments and first gastral tergite with simple hairs. Side of alitrunk reticulate-punctate except for katepisternum which has a small smooth patch. Propodeum armed with a pair of long slender needle-like spines that are elevated at about 45°; length of spine greater than dorsal width of petiole node, approaching width of disc of postpetiole. Dorsal (outer) surface of hind basitarsus without long fine erect hairs. Petiole in profile with anterior face of node equal to or slightly greater than length of dorsum, in dorsal view petiole node approximately as broad as long. Disc of postpetiole finely reticulate-punctate.

Type Material
Holotype worker and para type worker, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Bisianumu, nr Sogeri, 15-20.iii.1955, 500 m., no. 655, rainforest (E. O. Wilson) [examined].