Strumigenys incuba Bolton 2000
Creators: name: Arredondo, Brandon S.
name: Carreño-Guevara, Yennifer
name: Gutierrez-Villanueva, Yenifer
name: Duran-Bautista, Ervin Humprey
name: Gamboa-Tabares, Jean
name: Guerrero, Roberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Strumigenys
Strumigenys incuba

description: Strumigenys incuba Bolton, 2000
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
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
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
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).
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.
description: Published as part of Arredondo, Brandon S., Carreño-Guevara, Yennifer, Gutierrez-Villanueva, Yenifer, Duran-Bautista, Ervin Humprey, Gamboa-Tabares, Jean & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2025, Soil and leaf litter ants from the Amazon Region offer new distribution records for Colombia, pp. e 142813 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e142813, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e142813