Strumigenys membranifera Emery 1869
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 2. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA.
- 3. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, PO Box 12613, Giza, Egypt.
Description
Strumigenys membranifera Emery, 1869
Fig. 47
Strumigenys (Trichoscapa) membranifera Emery, 1869: 24 (w) Italy. Palearctic.
Diagnosis
Dull yellow to yellow-brown; mandibles with 12 teeth, arranged in a series of 7 larger teeth basally followed by 4 denticles and a small terminal tooth; eyes minute, with few ommatidia, situated ventrally on antennal scrobes; metanotal groove absent; in profile, spongiform appendages of petiole and postpetiole well-developed; cephalic pilosity restricted to one pair of setae; cephalic dorsum with appressed pubescence; mesosomal dorsum with scattered minute appressed pubescence; cephalic dorsum reticulate-punctate and dull; sides of mesosoma and propodeal dorsum and declivity smooth (Fig. 47).
Material examined
Syntype ITALY • Portici; 24 Sep. 1867; CASENT0102081; MSNG.
Additional material
OMAN – Dhofar • 1 w; Dhalkout; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA.
Ecological and biological notes
Strumigenys membranifera was collected from leaf litter in a shaded area in Dhalkout Forest where the soil was moist, and grasses and shrubs were abundant.
Geographic range
A pantropical species, originally described from Italy, this is a tramp species widespread outside the tropics (Brown & Wilson 1959; Bolton 1983, 2000; Wetterer 2011). The first record from the Arabian Peninsula was from UAE (Bolton 2000) and later this species was reported from KSA and Qatar (Sharaf et al. 2014, 2015b). The genus and species are recorded for the first time from Oman.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MSNG , SF, KSMA
- Event date
- 1867-09-24 , 2017-11-19
- Verbatim event date
- 1867-09-24 , 2017-11-19
- Scientific name authorship
- Emery
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Strumigenys
- Species
- membranifera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Strumigenys membranifera Emery, 1869 sec. Sharaf, Wetterer, Mohamed & Aldawood, 2022
References
- Emery C. 1869. Enumerazione dei formicidi che rinvengonsi nei contorni di Napoli con descrizioni di specie nuove o meno conosciute. Annali dell'Accademia degli Aspiranti Naturalisti Secunda Era 2: 1 - 26.
- Mayr G. 1866. Diagnosen neuer und wenig gekannter Formiciden. Verhandlungen der KaiserlichKoniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 16: 885 - 908. https. // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 25847
- Brown W. L. Jr & Wilson E. O. 1959. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Quarterly Review of Biology 34: 278 - 294.
- Bolton B. 1983. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46: 267 - 416. https: // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 26848
- Bolton B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65: 1 - 1028.
- Wetterer J. K. 2011. Worldwide spread of the membraniferous dacetine ant, Strumigenys membranifera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 14: 129 - 135.
- Sharaf M. R., Fisher B. L. & Aldawood A. S. 2014. Notes on Ants of the genus Strumigenys F. Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with a key to species. Sociobiology 61 (3): 293 - 301. https: // doi. org / 10.13102 / sociobiology. v 61 i 3.293 - 299
- Sharaf M. R., Al-Hajri S. H. & Aldawood A. S. 2015 b. First record of the ant genus Strumigenys S. Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Qatar by the invasive species S. membranifera Emery, 1869. Zoology in the Middle East 61: 362 - 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2015.1095514