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<mods:title>Review of the genus Strumigenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in Hong Kong with the description of three new species and the addition of five native and four introduced species records</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Tang, Kit Lam</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Guenard, Benoit</mods:namePart>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="156200892" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:163934557AADFD9C3A37A2AE6FE3B67F" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/163934557AADFD9C3A37A2AE6FE3B67F" lastPageId="29" lastPageNumber="30" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">
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<taxonomicName authority="(Brown, 1949) - New record" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Strumigenys" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Strumigenys mutica" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mutica">Strumigenys cf. mutica (Brown, 1949) - New record</taxonomicName>
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Fig. 11
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Material examined.</paragraph>
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HONG KONG: Tai Po District, Ping Shan Chai,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="55" value="22.486">22.486N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="55" value="114.187">114.187E</geoCoordinate>
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, 142 m, 3.VI.2017 to 30.VI.2017, C.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Barthélémy">Barthelemy</normalizedToken>
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, ANTWEB1016246, Malaise trap, IBBL.
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Measurements.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Alate females (n = 2): TL 2.2-2.5, HL 0.51-0.57, HW 0.39-0.41, MandL 0.13-0.14, SL 0.33-0.38, EL 0.14-0.16, PW 0.28-0.35, ML 0.58-0.68, PL 0.22-0.24, PH 0.19-0.20, DPW 0.13, PPL 0.11-0.13, GL 0.61-0.73, CI 72-76, MI 25, SI 85-92, OI 36-39, LPI 84-86, DPI 55-59.</paragraph>
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<pageBreakToken pageId="28" pageNumber="29" start="start">This</pageBreakToken>
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species is known in Hong Kong from two alate females. The shape of the mandibles, including the conspicuous diastema and dentition suggests that this species belongs to the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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-group as defined by
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<bibRefCitation author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" pagination="1 - 1028" title="The ant tribe Dacetini." volume="65" year="2000">Bolton (2000)</bibRefCitation>
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. However, this species differs from other Asian species in this group, defined on the basis of the worker caste, by the absence of spatulate or spoon-shaped hairs, instead having elongate fine hairs covering the body. However, the queen caste of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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was originally described as
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separate species,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Kyidris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Kyidris nuda" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">Kyidris nuda</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Brown, Jr WL" journalOrPublisher="Mushi" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" pagination="1 - 25" title="Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini. I. Fauna of Japan, China and Taiwan." volume="20" year="1949">Brown 1949</bibRefCitation>
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), but then synonymized with
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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on the basis of complete nest series reared in laboratory conditions (
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<bibRefCitation author="Brown, Jr WL" journalOrPublisher="Psyche: A Journal of Entomology" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" pagination=": 124" title="Synonymous ant names." url="https://doi.org/10.1155/1951/56531" volume="58" year="1952">Brown 1952</bibRefCitation>
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). The fine hairs on queens of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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were described by
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<bibRefCitation author="Brown, Jr WL" journalOrPublisher="Mushi" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" pagination="1 - 25" title="Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini. I. Fauna of Japan, China and Taiwan." volume="20" year="1949">Brown (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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as short and pointed, which we confirmed after examination of photographs of the holotype of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="K. nuda" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="nuda">K. nuda</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Janicki, J" journalOrPublisher="Asian Myrmecology" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" url="http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp" year="2006">Japanese Ant Image Database 2006</bibRefCitation>
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, pictures PCD2228-48, 49 & 50). This is contrary to our specimens, which possess long suberect and erect fine hairs (Fig. 11
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<normalizedToken originalValue="A–C">A-C</normalizedToken>
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). According to
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<bibRefCitation author="Brown, Jr WL" journalOrPublisher="Mushi" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" pagination="1 - 25" title="Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini. I. Fauna of Japan, China and Taiwan." volume="20" year="1949">Brown (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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, queens of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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also possess a densely punctulate-granulose mesonotal surface, while our specimens show a punctuate to finely strigate mesonotal surface, with shiny and smooth anepisternum and katepisternum. Unfortunately, we were not able to examine the queen specimen of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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in great detail. While the specimens collected in Hong Kong might represent a new species within the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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-group, we do not think that at this point enough evidence could be gathered to describe those as a new species. Future collection of workers or new available material of gynes collected in Taiwan or Japan might help solve this problem.
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Figure 11.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Strumigenys" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Strumigenys mutica" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mutica">Strumigenys cf. mutica</taxonomicName>
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queen (ANTWEB1016246(1)) A profile view B dorsal view C&nbsp;full-face view.
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<paragraph pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Ecology.</paragraph>
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Very little is known about the ecology of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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, as only two alate individuals collected in a secondary forest by Malaise traps are known (Fig. 10).
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<subSubSection pageId="29" pageNumber="30" type="comments">
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<paragraph pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Comments.</paragraph>
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Two species within the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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-group have been recorded in nearby regions,
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. mutica" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="mutica">S. mutica</taxonomicName>
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in mainland China (Guangxi, Hunan), Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="S. takasago" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" rank="species" species="takasago">S. takasago</taxonomicName>
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, endemic to Taiwan. The latter species also differs from our specimens by its larger size (HL 0.70, HW 0.63), the conspicuous presence of erect spoon-shaped hairs on the body, and the acute propodeal declivity (
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<bibRefCitation author="Terayama, M" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" pagination="85 - 89" title="The ant genera Epitritus and Kyidris from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." volume="53" year="1995">Terayama et al. 1995</bibRefCitation>
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).
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