Strumigenys media

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Strumigenys media (Wilson & Brown, 1956) valid

Kyidris media Wilson & Brown, 1956: 445, figs. 2, 5 (w.q.m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Didiman Creek, nr Lae, 29.iii.1955, in nest of Strumigenys loriae (nest no. 713), lowland rainforest (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC.

Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1672.
Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 123.
Status as species: Kutter, 1968c: 205; Bolton, 1995b: 219; Bolton, 2000: 455 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Kyidris media

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.
Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
Wilson, E. O.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1956. New parasitic ants of the genus Kyidris, with notes on ecology and behavior. Insectes Sociaux 3:439-454. PDF

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