Strumigenys superstes Booher & Uhey 2020

Booher, Douglas B., 2021, The ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in western North America North of Mexico, Zootaxa 5061 (2), pp. 201-248 : 245

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5061.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D3925450-125B-4E92-8988-64ED1C544672
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5649600
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DA6387B5-C704-0D1B-FF14-FEB4FE1CFDEE
treatment provided by	Plazi (2021-11-05 20:28:39, last updated 2024-11-26 03:48:45)
scientific name	Strumigenys superstes Booher & Uhey 2020
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Distribution. USA; Arizona.

Comments. This species is a most unusual Strumigenys and is known from a single dealate queen collected in a pitfall trap between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon between late June and mid-July. Strumigenys superstes belongs to the excisa species-group, a morphologically distinct clade of shiny short-mandible species that once belonged in the genus Glamyromyrmex ( Booher et al. 2021; Booher & Uhey 2020). Strumigenys superstes was collected in an undisturbed arid pinyon-juniper woodland on the Colorado Plateau. All other excisa species-group members have ranges in the Neotropics.

References

Booher, D. B. & Uhey, D., (2020) New native trap-jaw ant, Strumigenys Smith, from the Neotropical excisa species group discovered in a disjunct region and climate on the Colorado Plateau. Southwestern Naturalist, 45 (3), 663 - 672.

Booher, D. B., Gibson, J., Cong, L., Longino, J. T., Fisher, B. L., Janda, M., Narula, N., Toulkeridou, E., Mikheyev, A. S., Suarez, A. V. & Economo, E. P. (2021) Functional innovation promotes diversification of form in the evolution of an ultrafast trapjaw mechanism in ants. PLoS Biology, 19 (3), e 3001031. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pbio. 3001031