Strumigenys reflexa Wesson & Wesson, 1939

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 : 241

Strumigenys reflexa Wesson & Wesson, 1939

Distribution. USA; in eastern USA from Florida to Maryland and west to Missouri; in western USA occurs in Kansas and Texas.

Comments. This ant is a relatively uncommon and wide-ranging eastern species. Like S. pulchella , S. reflexa colonies have most often been collected in rotting wood and stumps ( Wesson & Wesson 1939). DuBois (1985) reports the single colony collected in Kansas was nesting in rotted wood near a permanent waterway in a deciduous forest. Of the Texas specimens examined, one provided habitat details. The worker collected near Hemphill, Texas was extracted from a magnolia trunk in a beech bottom forest.

Material examined: USA, Texas, Sabine Co., 9 miles east of Hemphill , 31.341042, -93.692656, 76 m, 25 Jul 1989, ex. Berlese, Beech Bottom Magnolia trunk, 1 worker, coll. R. Anderson & E. Riley, (casent0799717)[ DBBC] ; USA, Texas, San Jacinto Co., Big Creek Scenic Area , 30.513102, -95.090501, 83 m, 16 Jul 1998, 1 worker, coll. J.L. Cook & J.B. Martin, (casent0799716)[ DBBC] ; USA, Texas, San Jacinto Co., Big Creek Scenic Area , 30.510552, -95.083337, 81 m, 18 Apr 1999, 1 worker, coll. J.L. Cook & J.B. Martin, (casent0799715)[ DBBC] .