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General Information

COMMON NAMES: One-tooth Longjaw-Ant GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE se.Asia - Indonesia; EXOTIC EXOTIC circumtropical via commerce incl. Pacific (incl. Tonga - Cooks, Hawai‘i) COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land, lowlands forest, Littoral SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Pest??? KEY FEATURES: WORKER: Small ant to 2mmBL incl. jaws. COLOUR yellow-orange. JAWS straight and long; each jaw with with 2 teeth (sub-terminal 1, and terminal 1 forked). ANTENNAE with 5 segments, segments 2&3 relatively short. SIMILAR SPECIES: See under Two-tooth Longjaw-Ant (Strumigenys rogeri).

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
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Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Strumigenys godeffroyi Mayr, 1866
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hymenoptera; Apocrita; Aculeata; Vespoidea; FORMICIDAE, Myrmicinae

GENERAL NOTE: Found in rotten logs, with moss and ferns, in leaf-litter and sometimes low-arboreal associated with moss. "...strong transoceanic traveller, thriving in areas where the natural vegetation has been replaced by the tropicopolitan lowland flora associated with the works of man". Distributed throughout the Pacific Island groups ("even the most far-flung"), East Indies, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Tropical Mainland Asia, Phillipines, Northern Australia, across the Indian Ocean as far as Madascar. (W&T67) A tramp species distributed by recent human commerce.

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: TaylorDSIR;

References:
Special Reference: W&T67,

Data Update History (information):
zB02, zD05b

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