Strumigenys prospiciens Emery, 1906

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Strumigenys prospiciens Emery, 1906

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000062105 ; recordedBy: Kenna Martinez; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: A2501D90-71C9-550A-9BAE-6F3B560DF9B6; Taxon: scientificName: Strumigenys prospiciens ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Strumigenys ; specificEpithet: prospiciens ; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1906; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Av. Caraño, Fca. Buenos Aires 1 ; verbatimElevation: 1095 m; locationRemarks: From 0 cm to 10 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°44'06.6"N 75°40'24.6"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-06-01; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Diagnosis

This species is recognised by the following characteristics: in frontal view, mandibles arising from the middle of the anterior margin of the clypeus; cephalic dorsum with a single pair of erect hairs, located posteromedially; Mesosoma in profile, propodeal declivity concave, upper and lower propodeal teeth narrowly proximal, joined by a short, broad lamella; bulla of femoral gland located dorsally in apical quarter of segment length, usually with faint oval patch-like appearance; first gastral tergite with numerous flagellate, suberect to erect hairs arising over entire tergite (Fig. 16 ) ( Emery 1906, Bolton 2000).

Distribution

Strumigenys prospiciens is widely distributed in South America ( Bolton 2000). It is reported here for the first time in Colombia. In the Neotropical Region, the species has also been recorded in Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, French Guiana and Venezuela ( Lattke and Goitía 1997, Bolton 2000, Wild 2007).

Biology

The queen was collected 0 to 10 cm deep in the soil in an Andean-Amazonian transition zone, using TSBF sampling methodology.

Figures

Figure 16. Strumigenys prospiciens queen (LEUA- 00000062105) A head in frontal view; B body in dorsal view; C body in lateral view. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A); 1.0 mm (B, C).