Strumigenys rallarhina Bolton 2000
Creators: name: Tang, Kit Lam
name: Guénard, Benoit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Strumigenys
Strumigenys rallarhina

description: Strumigenys rallarhina Bolton, 2000
Fig. 34G–I; Table 2
Strumigenys rallarhina Bolton 2000: 891 (w.) CHINA. Palearctic.
Material examined
MAINLAND CHINA – Guangdong Province • 3 workers; Dinghushan; 6 May 1998; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 2 workers; Dinghushan; 100 m a.s.l.; 7 May 1998; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM ANTWEB1011910. – Guangxi Province • 1 worker; Dapingshan; 25 Sep. 1998; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker; Dawangling, Leidashan; 880 m a.s.l.; 5 Aug. 1999; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 3 workers, 1 queen; Dawangling, Longuo; 1190 m a.s.l.; 6 Aug. 1999; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker; Dayaoshan, Longan Cun; 18 Sep. 1998; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker; same collection data as for preceding; HKBM • 1 worker; same collection data as for preceding; HKBM • 1 worker; Dayaoshan, Luoxiang Cun; 23 Sep. 1998; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 17 workers; Diding; 1110 m a.s.l.; 9 Jul. 1999; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 6 workers, 1 queen; Longhushan; 16 Oct. 1998; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker; Nonggang, Longshan (Longrui); 27 May 1998; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker; Nongxin; 1050 m a.s.l.; 12 Jul. 1999; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM. – Hainan Province • 1 worker; Yinggeling; 1020 m a.s.l.; 26 Aug. 2005; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 6 workers; Cong 1; L. Wang leg.; Winkler, 4 corners; IBBL • 69 workers; Jianfengling, JFLFW4; 18.706° N, 108.871° E; 4 Jan. 2016; L. Wang leg.; Winkler, 4 corners; IBBL.
HONG KONG • 6 workers; Lantau Island, Sunset Peak South; 22.25733° N, 113.96257° E; 670 m a.s.l.; 8 Oct. 1996; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker, 2 queens; Sai Kung District, Pak Kong; 22.37933° N, 114.25811° E; 50 m a.s.l.; 2 Nov. 1996; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 8 workers; Sha Tin District, Ma On Shan; 15 Oct. 1996; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 25 workers; Tai Po District, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden; 11 Jul. 1995; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker; Tai Po District, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM ANTWEB1015017 • 4 workers; Tai Po District, Ng Tung Chai Bottom Falls; 22.43149° N, 114.13086° E; 180 m a.s.l.; 12 Nov. 1996; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 1 worker, 1 queen; Tai Po District, Wong Chuk Yeung Feng Shui Wood; 29 Oct. 1996; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM • 16 workers; Tsuen Wan District, Shing Mun; 17 Aug. 1995; J. Fellowes leg.; HKBM.
Geographic range
Mainland China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Yunnan), Vietnam.
New record for Guangdong and Hainan.
Ecology
Collected in primary and secondary forest, at elevations from 50 to 1190 m.
Comments
This species has been recorded from west to east: Tibet and Yunnan Province of mainland China, northern region in Vietnam, Guangxi Province and Hong Kong. The new records in Guangdong and Hainan presented here fill in the previous gap between Hong Kong and its remaining native range. Its presence in Laos seems also likely.
description: Published as part of Tang, Kit Lam & Guénard, Benoit, 2023, Further additions to the knowledge of Strumigenys (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) within South East Asia, with the descriptions of 20 new species, pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 907 on page 103, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.907.2327, http://zenodo.org/record/10148811