The ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in western North America North of Mexico
Author
Booher, Douglas B.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-11-04
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journal article
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Strumigenys chiricahua
(
Ward, 1988
)
Distribution
.
USA
;
Arizona
Comments
. This species is known from two collections and possibly a third. The
holotype
worker was collected in a
Berlesate
sample of concentrated leaf litter from an oak woodland, and a colony of more than
20 workers
was extracted from a rotten root in a juniper woodland.
Both
validated collections were made in
August
at or near the
Southwestern Research Station
in the
Chiricahua Mountains
in
Arizona
. A third possible specimen is an alate queen tentatively identified from images.
This
specimen was collected by
Gary Alpert
in a
Malaise trap
16 km
southeast of
Flagstaff in Walnut Canyon National Monument
,
Coconino County
, in the bottom of a ravine (BugGuide 2020a).
Material examined:
USA
,
Arizona
,
Coconino Co.
,
Walnut Canyon National Monument
,
16 km
SE Flagstaff
,
35.171583
,
-111.513917
,
1946 m
,
22 Aug 2017
, ex.
SLAM trap
#1, in the bottom of ravine, 1 alate queen, coll.
Gary Alpert, WP
243, [
MNA
]
;
USA
,
Arizona
,
Cochise Co.
,
Chiricahua Mtns
,
4.8 km
W Portal
,
31.88351
,
-109.17806
,
1535 m
,
11 Aug 2009
, ex rotten root, Oak-pine-juniper woodland,
1 worker
, coll.
Brian L. Fisher
, BLF22737, (casent0009929-d01)[
CASC
]
.