Strumigenys petiolata Bernard
  Type location Guinea
(Strumigenys petiolata n. sp.,
Bernard, 1952: 254, illustrated, worker; revived by
Bolton from synonymy with Strumigenys rufobrunea Brown, 1954:
17), from Mt. Nimba, at 700 m, 4
workers in a termitary in the forest, collector Villiers - see below  .
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 Bernard's
description (1952) is at  .
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 Bolton's
modern description (1983) is at  .
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 Nigeria
specimen (as S. rufobrunea, Taylor, 1979: 51). WORKER. TL
2.26 mm, HL 0.62, HW 0.50, SL 0.31, PW 0.30
Others TL 2.0-2.5 mm (Bolton, 1983: 384, illustrated, full face and
lateral head).
Moderately excised preocular notch, ventral only. Mandibles with first
preapical tooth moderately long, second tooth well developed. Apical
pair of teeth with ventral shorter than dorsal. Head reticulopunctate;
alitrunk and pedicel opaque, dull and unsculptured except for a fine
mid-dorsal carina on the pronotum; lateral areas of mesonotum and
propodeum shiny. Dorsum of head with scattered, short, adpressed
spatulate hairs and a lateral fringe of 6/7 curved, broad spatulate
hairs. Erect hairs narrow and clavate on the alitrunk (one pair),
pedicel and gaster. Spongiform appendages of pedicel poorly developed
on the petiole, short narrow subpetiolar strip and moderate on the
postpetiole. Mesonotum on a distinctly lower level than the pronotum.
Colour variable from yellow to dark brown or even darker, gaster often
darker than head and alitrunk.
Found by my team in a debris tent on cocoa at Apoje, near Ijebu-Igbo.
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Brown (1954) simply noted it, as S. rufobrunea,
as being from West Africa.
In Nigeria Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria,
Idi Ayunre, (B. Bolton) from soil and from a dead log. Also from IITA
(A. Russell-Smith).
From Ghana, Bolton (1983) listed Enchi, Legon and
CRIG (D. Leston), CRIG (B. Bolton; C.A. Collingwood), Mt. Atewa (B.
Bolton), and Mampong (P.M. Room). Listed by Room (1971), as Strumigenys
species 1, from open ground and leaf litter at the
Mampong Cemetery farm. Described as widespread, from their leaf litter
samples (1439 workers plus 31 from soil samples at 20 sites) in the
semi-deciduous forest zone by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b). A single
worker referred to as Strumigenys species F 584 was collected
by Bigger (1981a) by pkd from Amelonado cocoa canopy at CRIG. Not such
specimen was seen by Bolton (1983) but the code number suggests it is
one of the species recorded as collected by D. Leston, the only one
without a well-known name being petiolata.
Ivory Coast records included Issoneu, Man and Tai
Forest (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret); Banco Forest and Sassandra (I.
Löbl), Divo and Gagnoa (L. Brader) (Bolton, 1983).
From Cameroun at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson), near
Yaoundé (G. Terron), and Batanga (G. Schwab) (Bolton, 1983).
Others Gabon (Makokou, I. Lieberburg, and W.
Gotwald), Central African Republic (Haut Mbomu. N.A. Weber), Angola
and Sudan.
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 The
photomontage of the type worker is collated
from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913611.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Strumigenys petiolata
B Taylor det.
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Congo
Y Braet
t-1-17
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19.viii.2007
Brazzaville
4° 15' 33" S
15° 17' 5" E
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24h pitfall trap;
forest around the GERDIB laboratories; 317 m asl |
3
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Strumigenys petiolata
B Taylor det. |
Congo
E Zassi
t-1-1
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8-9.xi.2007
Lésio-Louna
03°16'13.9" S
015°28'21.2" E
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Gallery Forest; 24h
pitfall trap
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1
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Strumigenys petiolata
B Taylor det. |
Congo
Y Braet
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7.x.2007
Dzio-Dzio
3°29'33" S
15°18'33" E
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Ngabe, Région de Pool
collected by sweep netting (fauchage)
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1
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Strumigenys petiolata
B Taylor det. |
Ghana
S Sky Stephens
06G0027
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2006
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in personal
collection of S Sky Stephens
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1
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Congo, Brazzaville; collectors
Yves Braet
& Eric Zassi (trap
t 1.17).
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 The
photomontage is of a specimen from Ghana, collected by S
Sky Stephens, 2006.
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 The
photomontage of a worker from the Ivory Coast is collated
from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102584.
Collection Information: Specimen Code CASENT0102584; Locality Ivory
Coast: [Issoneu]; Collection codes: ANTC4792; Date: 12 Oct 1980;
Collected by: V.Mahnert J-L. Perret
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