Strumigenys incuba Bolton, 2000

Strumigenys incuba Bolton, 2000 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061667 ; recordedBy: Brahyam Quimbaya; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 037519A0-93C4-5100-BF63-DC459E0C0886; Taxon: scientificName: Strumigenys incuba ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Strumigenys ; specificEpithet: incuba ; scientificNameAuthorship: Bolton, 2000; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Av. Caraño, Fca. El Chorro ; verbatimElevation: 739 m; locationRemarks: From 0 cm to 10 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°44'27.2"N 75°39'12.3"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-08; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061668 ; recordedBy: Brahyam Quimbaya; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: C06EDC30-76A7-525C-A8EE-F601C7277272; Taxon: scientificName: Strumigenys incuba ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Strumigenys ; specificEpithet: incuba ; scientificNameAuthorship: Bolton, 2000; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Av. Caraño, Fca. El Chorro ; verbatimElevation: 739 m; locationRemarks: From 0 cm to 10 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°44'27.2"N 75°39'12.3"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-08; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061669 ; recordedBy: Brahyam Quimbaya; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: BA418CB0-F8F8-56FB-BDDC-4F2B7EF2C128; Taxon: scientificName: Strumigenys incuba ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Strumigenys ; specificEpithet: incuba ; scientificNameAuthorship: Bolton, 2000; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Av. Caraño, Fca. El Chorro ; verbatimElevation: 739 m; locationRemarks: From 0 cm to 10 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°44'27.2"N 75°39'12.3"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-08; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Diagnosis

This species is recognised by having a mandible located in the middle of the anterior margin of the clypeus, without intercalary teeth, with a single proximal pre-apical tooth located near the mid-length; propodeal declivity with a narrow carina; a disc of the postpetiole and dorsum of first gastral tergite partially smooth with the presence of the basigastral carina; hairs of the first gastral tergite rigid; dorsum of the pronotum strongly rugose longitudinally; metapleural and lateral region of the propodeum smooth (Fig. 15 View Figure 15 ).

Distribution

This species has a restricted distribution, being recorded only from Ecuador and Colombia ( Ryder et al. 2010 b). In Colombia, it is known from the Departments of Cauca and Putumayo ( Fernández et al. 2019). It is reported here for the first time in the Department of Caquetá.

Biology

The specimens were collected 0 to 10 cm deep in the soil in an Andean-Amazonian transition zone.