Strumigenys californica
(Brown, 1950)
valid
Smithistruma (Smithistruma) californica
Brown, 1950b:
40 (q.)
U.S.A. (California).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: California, Claremont (C.F. Baker). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype queen (lacking head). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: LACM.
Type notes:
Brown, 1964b: 190, records that “a third female specimen with the same data as the types has been found in the collection of the Department of Entomology, Cornell University”.
- Ward, 1988: 120 (w.)
- Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1673.
- Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 116.
- Status as species: Smith, 1951c: 827; Brown, 1953g: 85 (redescription); Smith, 1958c: 136; Brown, 1964b: 190; Smith, 1979: 1405; Ward, 1988: 119 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 384; Bolton, 2000: 126 (redescription); Ward, 2005: 67; Booher, 2021: 223.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- 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. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33:1639-1689. PDF
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
- Booher, D. B. 2021. The ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in western North America north of Mexico. Zootaxa 5061 (2):201-248. 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.2.1 PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1950b. Supplementary notes on the feeding of dacetine ants. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 45:87-89.
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953g. Revisionary studies in the ant tribe Dacetini. American Midland Naturalist 50:1-137. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964b. The ant genus Smithistruma: a first supplement to the World revision (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 89:183-200. PDF
- Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
- Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1988. Mesic elements in the western Nearctic ant fauna: taxonomic and biological notes on Amblyopone, Proceratium, and Smithistruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 61:102-124. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF