Strumigenys agra

	Strumigenys agra
	; Working ant
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Kingdom :	Eumetazoi
No rank :	Bilateral symmetrical
No rank :	Primary
No rank :	Molting
No rank :	Panarthropoda
Type of:	Arthropods
Subtype :	Tracheo-breathing
Overclass :	Six-legged
Grade:	Insects
Subclass :	Winged insects
Infraclass :	Winged insects
Treasure :	Fully Transformed Insects
Squadron :	Hymenopterida
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder :	Belly-bellied
Infrastructure :	Stinging
Superfamily :	Formicoidea
Family:	Ants
Subfamily :	Myrmycins
Tribe :	Dacetini
Gender:	Strumigenys
View:	Strumigenys agra
International scientific name
	Strumigenys agra Fisher, 2000

Strumigenys agra (lat.) Is a species of small earthen ants of the genus Strumigenys from the subfamily Myrmicinae .

Head with open mandibles.

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Distribution

Madagascar

Description

Small secretive ants (as part of a kind of one of the largest representatives, length about 5 mm) with a heart-shaped head, expanded posteriorly. Propodeum with long bent teeth. Petiol with a long stalked part. The apical fork was stitched with 3 teeth (head length HL 1.24-1.35 mm, head width HW 0.68-0.77 mm, mandibular index MI 54-68). Antennae 6-segmented. Head dorsum with 4 spaced hairs located in a transverse row near the occipital margin. Included in the species group S. apios -group (tribe Dacetini ). The main color is brown. Mandibles long, narrow (with several teeth). The eyes are located inside the antennal grooves, grooves, ventro-lateral. The mandibular palps are 1-segmented, the lower labial palps consist of 1 segment (formula 1.1). The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of two segments: the petiolus and postpetiolus (the latter is clearly separated from the abdomen), the sting is developed, pupae are naked (without cocoon). Specialized coleball hunters. The species was first described in 2000 by the American worldmecologist Brian L. Fisher (Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences , San Francisco , California , USA ) ^[1] .

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Notes

↑ Fisher, BL 2000. The Malagasy fauna of Strumigenys. Pp. 612-696 in: Bolton B. The ant tribe Dacetini. With a revision of the Strumigenys species of the Malgasy Region by Brian L. Fisher, and a revision of the Austral epopostrumiform genera by Steven O. Shattuck (Eng.) // Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute: Journal. - Gainesville , FL: American Entomological Institute, 2000. - Vol. 65 . - P. 1-1028 . - ISBN 1-887988-09-2 . (page 625)

Literature

Bolton, B. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae) // Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology series): Journal. - London : British Museum (Natural History) , 1983. - Vol. 46. - P. 267-416.
Bolton B. A new general catalog of the ants of the world. - Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1995 .-- P. 504.
Bolton B. The ant tribe Dacetini. With a revision of the Strumigenys species of the Malgasy Region by Brian L. Fisher, and a revision of the Austral epopostrumiform genera by Steven O. Shattuck. (Eng.) // Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. - Gainesville, FL: American Entomological Institute, 2000. - Vol. 65. - P. 1-1028. - ISBN 1-887988-09-2 .

[Bolton2000-1] Fisher, BL 2000. The Malagasy fauna of Strumigenys. Pp. 612-696 in: Bolton B. The ant tribe Dacetini. With a revision of the Strumigenys species of the Malgasy Region by Brian L. Fisher, and a revision of the Austral epopostrumiform genera by Steven O. Shattuck (Eng.) // Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute: Journal. - Gainesville , FL: American Entomological Institute, 2000. - Vol. 65 . - P. 1-1028 . - ISBN 1-887988-09-2 . (page 625)