Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Strumigenys (Trichoscapa) membranifera Emery, 1869b PDF: 24, fig. 11 (w.) ITALY. Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Italy: Napoli, Portici, 24.ix.1867 (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102081.
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Status as species:
Emery, 1875b PDF: 474;
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 464;
André, 1883b: 400 (in key);
Forel, 1886a PDF: 216 (in key);
Emery, 1890c PDF: pl. viii, fig. 4;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 147;
Wheeler, 1908a PDF: 144;
Santschi, 1913b PDF: 258;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 205;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 168;
Emery, 1924f PDF: 323;
Smith, 1931c PDF: 856;
Finzi, 1936 PDF: 183;
Wesson & Wesson, 1939 PDF: 108;
Brown, 1948e PDF: 114;
Brown, 1949d: 6;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 306;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 829;
Weber, 1952c PDF: 18;
Wilson, 1954a PDF: 483;
Smith, 1958c PDF: 137;
Smith, 1967a PDF: 362;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b PDF: 35;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 154;
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 255;
Smith, 1979: 1408;
Onoyama, 1980a PDF: 198;
Bolton, 1983 PDF: 319 (redescription);
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 53;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 265 (in key);
Kugler, 1988 PDF: 258;
Ward, 1988 PDF: 122 (in key);
Terayama & Kubota, 1989 PDF: 790;
Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 98;
Ogata, 1991b PDF: 138;
Mei, 1992a PDF: 419;
Morisita et al., 1992: 73;
Dlussky, 1993b PDF: 57;
Dlussky, 1994a: 53;
Bolton, 1995b: 421;
Mei, 1995 PDF: 766;
Poldi et al., 1995: 6;
Schembri & Collingwood, 1995: 154;
Deyrup, 1997 PDF: 5;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 32;
Bolton, 2000: 322 (redescription);
Deyrup et al., 2000: 299;
Wetterer, 2002 PDF: 129;
Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 47;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 105;
Lin & Wu, 2003: 63;
Wetterer & Vargo, 2003 PDF: 417;
Xu & Zhou, 2004 PDF: 441 (in key);
MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 68;
MacGown et al., 2005 PDF: 287;
Ward, 2005 PDF: 67;
Gómez & Espadaler, 2006 PDF: 230;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 84 (in key);
Clouse, 2007b PDF: 227;
Wetterer et al., 2007 PDF: 22;
Framenau & Thomas, 2008 PDF: 71;
Terayama, 2009 PDF: 138;
Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010 PDF: 44;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 4;
Wetterer, 2011b PDF: 129;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 533;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 52;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 24;
Sarnat & Economo, 2012 PDF: 118;
Bharti & Akbar, 2013b PDF: 393 (in key);
Sarnat et al., 2013 PDF: 72;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 165;
Ramage, 2014 PDF: 159;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 44;
Lebas et al., 2016: 340;
Wetterer et al., 2016 PDF: 19;
Deyrup, 2017: 133;
Guerrero et al., 2018 10.25100/socolen.v44i2.7115 PDF: 256;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 22;
Booher et al., 2019 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.2.7 PDF: 355 (in key);
Dekoninck et al., 2019 PDF: 1157;
Lubertazzi, 2019 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF: 179;
Pérez-Pedraza & Fernández, 2019 PDF: 1086;
Sarnat et al., 2019 10.1093/isd/ixz005 PDF: 37;
Tang et al., 2019 10.3897/zookeys.831.31515 PDF: 26;
Salata et al., 2019 PDF: 17;
Dias et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF: 92;
Dong & Kim, 2020 10.20362/am.012001 PDF: 14 (redescription);
Sharaf et al., 2020 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.4.005 PDF: 550;
Booher, 2021 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.2.1 PDF: 233;
Wang et al., 2022 10.20362/am.015006 PDF: 104;
Sharaf et al., 2022 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925 PDF: 74.
Senior synonym of
Strumigenys membranifera marioni:
Brown, 1948e PDF: 114;
Brown, 1949d: 7;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 829;
Smith, 1979: 1408;
Bolton, 1983 PDF: 319;
Terayama & Kubota, 1989 PDF: 790;
Bolton, 1995b: 421;
Bolton, 2000: 322;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 105;
Sarnat et al., 2019 10.1093/isd/ixz005 PDF: 37.
Senior synonym of
Strumigenys silvestriana:
Brown, 1948e PDF: 114;
Brown, 1949d: 7;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 107;
Smith, 1979: 1408;
Bolton, 1983 PDF: 319;
Terayama & Kubota, 1989 PDF: 790;
Bolton, 1995b: 421;
Bolton, 2000: 322;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 105;
Sarnat et al., 2019 10.1093/isd/ixz005 PDF: 37.
Senior synonym of
Strumigenys membranifera simillima:
Brown, 1948e PDF: 114;
Brown, 1949d: 7;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 829;
Weber, 1952b PDF: 7;
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 255;
Smith, 1979: 1408;
Bolton, 1983 PDF: 319;
Terayama & Kubota, 1989 PDF: 790;
Bolton, 1995b: 421;
Bolton, 2000: 322;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 105;
Sarnat et al., 2019 10.1093/isd/ixz005 PDF: 37.
Senior synonym of
Strumigenys vitiensis:
Brown, 1948e PDF: 114;
Brown, 1949d: 7;
Smith, 1979: 1408;
Bolton, 1983 PDF: 319;
Terayama & Kubota, 1989 PDF: 790;
Dlussky, 1993b PDF: 57;
Dlussky, 1994a: 53;
Bolton, 1995b: 421;
Bolton, 2000: 322;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 105.
Senior synonym of
Strumigenys membranifera williamsi:
Brown, 1948e PDF: 114;
Brown, 1949d: 7;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b PDF: 35;
Smith, 1979: 1408;
Bolton, 1983 PDF: 319;
Terayama & Kubota, 1989 PDF: 790;
Bolton, 1995b: 421;
Bolton, 2000: 322;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 105;
Sarnat et al., 2019 10.1093/isd/ixz005 PDF: 37.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria,
Cameroon,
Comoros,
Egypt,
Madagascar,
Mayotte,
Sierra Leone,
South Africa,
Tunisia Americas: Barbados,
British Virgin Islands,
Colombia,
Cuba,
Dominican Republic,
Ecuador,
Galapagos Islands,
Mexico,
Puerto Rico,
Turks and Caicos Islands,
United States,
United States Virgin Islands Asia: Bhutan,
China,
India,
Indonesia,
Israel,
Japan,
Nepal,
Oman,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
South Korea,
Sri Lanka,
Taiwan,
United Arab Emirates Europe: Balearic Islands,
Greece,
Italy,
Malta,
Spain Oceania: Australia,
Fiji,
Guam,
Hawaii,
Marshall Islands,
Micronesia,
Northern Mariana Islands,
Samoa,
Solomon Islands,
Tonga,
Wallis and Futuna Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy,
Nearctic,
Neotropical,
Oceania,
Palearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Afrotropical, Indomalaya bioregions
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in dry forest, 3 times found in tropical dry forest, 11 times found in sandy roadside with lots of native grasses, 5 times found in Rainforest, 9 times found in collected in clump of Andropogon virginicus, 4 times found in Gallery forest on sandy soil, 7 times found in disturbed open pine/hardwood forest, 6 times found in Black Belt Prairie, 0 times found in collected in mulch at the base of a large oak, 4 times found in near port and train tracks in soil, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 9 times sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood), 23 times litter, 4 times ex rotten log, 5 times sifted litter, 4 times soil, 3 times sifting leaf litter, 3 times soil and shells, 1 times on ground, twighlight zone, 3 times leaf litter, 1 times under dead wood, 1 times leaf litter extraction, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 17 times Lindgren funnel baited with Typosan and alpha pinene, 27 times Berlese funnel, 3 times 9 MaxiWinks, mixed samples, 13 times Lindgren funnel baited with Typosan, 8 times Lindgren funnel, 7 times Winkler, 3 times Pitfall, 3 times Hand, 3 times 3 MaxiWinks, mixed samples, 1 times L, 2 times Malaise, ...
Elevations: collected from 1 - 1312 meters, 220 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1867-09-24 00:00:00.0 and 2022-05-21 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Not Provided: casent0171134, casent0184901, casent0187617, casent0717029; syntype of Strumigenys membranifera: casent0102081; syntype of Strumigenys membranifera santschii: casent0909329; syntype of Strumigenys membranifera simillima: casent0904961
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia
