Strumigenys nidifex

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Strumigenys nidifex Mann, 1921 valid

Strumigenys nidifex Mann, 1921: 464, fig. 23 (w.q.m.) FIJI (Viti Levu). Oceania.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Fiji Is: Viti Levu, Nadarivatu, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depositories: BMNH, LACM, MCZC, USNM. Type notes: 1) Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 131, cite 8 worker, 6 queen, 1 male syntypes (7w, 2q MCZC, 1w, 4q, 1m USNM). 2) Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 131, indicate specimens from Buka Levu, Waiyanitu, and Veisari (MCZC, USNM) which bear red “cotype” labels but are not original syntypes.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955a: 140 (l.)
Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 33; Brown, 1954a: 85; Brown, 1971c: 81 (redescription); Dlussky, 1993b: 61; Dlussky, 1994a: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 398; Bolton, 2000: 905 (redescription); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 131; Sarnat et al., 2019: 37.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954a ("1953"). The Indo-Australian species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: S. wallacei Emery and relatives. Psyche (Cambridge) 60:85-89. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1971c. The Indo-Australian species of the ant genus Strumigenys: group of szalayi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 73-86 in: Asahina, S. , et al. (eds.) 1971. Entomological essays to commemorate the retirement of Professor K. Yasumatsu. Tokyo: Hokuryukan Publishing Co., vi + 389 pp.
Dlussky, G. M. 1993b. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, and the problem of island faunas formation. 2. Tribe Dacetini. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 72(6):52-65. PDF
Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Hita Garcia, F.; Dudley, K.; Liu, C.; Fischer, G.; Economo, E. P. 2019. Ready species one: exploring the use of augmented reality to enhance systematic biology with a revision of Fijian Strumigenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 3 (6): 6:1-43. 10.1093/isd/ixz005 PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1955a ("1954"). The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribes Basicerotini and Dacetini. Psyche (Cambridge) 61:111-145. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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