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Strumigenys mazu

  • 1. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building, Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Description

Strumigenys mazu (Terayama et al., 1996)

Table 2

Smithistruma mazu Terayama et al., 1996: 337, figs 26–27, 30–31 (w.) TAIWAN. Indomalaya.

Pyramica mazu – Bolton 1999: 1673.

Strumigenys mazu – Baroni Urbani & De Andrade 2007: 123.

Material examined

MAINLAND CHINA – Guangxi Province • 1 worker; Diding; 1110 m a.s.l.; 9 Jul. 1999; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM.

Geographic range

Mainland China (Guangxi, Hong Kong), Japan, Taiwan

Ecology

Collected in closed broadleaf forest at an elevation of 1110 m.

Comments

The species’ current records in Guangxi and Hong Kong show a disjunct geographical range, in southern China in particular. Its presence in Fujian and Guangdong provinces appears likely.

Notes

Published as part of Tang, Kit Lam & Guénard, Benoit, 2023, Further additions to the knowledge of Strumigenys (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) within South East Asia, with the descriptions of 20 new species, pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 907 on page 87, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.907.2327, http://zenodo.org/record/10148811

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HKBM
Event date
1999-07-09
Verbatim event date
1999-07-09
Scientific name authorship
Terayama
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Strumigenys
Species
mazu
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Strumigenys mazu (Terayama, 1996) sec. Tang & Guénard, 2023

References

  • Terayama M., Lin C. C. & Wu W. J. 1996. The Taiwanese species of the ant genus Smithistruma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Japanese Journal of Entomology 64: 327 - 339.
  • Bolton B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33: 1639 - 1689. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 002229399299798
  • Baroni Urbani C. & De Andrade M. L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale " Giacomo Doria " 99: 1 - 191.