Stereomyrmex is a genus of myrmicineants. Two of the described species are known from only a single worker, making this one of the rarest groups of ants in the world.[2]
Stereomyrmex dispar is 3.2mm long and black, with yellowish brown mandibles, antennae, legs and terminal segments of gaster. S. anderseni is only 2mm long, has a very different petiolar and postpetiolar structure and is paler in color.[3]
Distribution
Stereomyrmex dispar has been described from a single worker, taken in 1933 on Bellona Island, Solomon Islands; no other specimen has since been found, and it is unlikely that the species is truly endemic to Bellona. S. anderseni is known from a single worker as well.[3]S. horni was collected under rocks in Sri Lanka.[4]
Names
The genus was originally named in honor of Maurice Willows Jr., who collected the type specimen of S. dispar.[5]S. anderseni was collected by A.N. Andersen. S. horni was collected by W. Horn.[citation needed]
↑Emery, Carlo (1901): Ameisen gesammelt in Ceylon von Dr. W. Horn 1899. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift1901: 113-122. PDF
↑Wheeler, William M. (1934): Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition, 1933. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences21(4): 173-181. PDF
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