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General Information

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

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 rogeri Emery, 1890
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hymenoptera; Apocrita; Aculeata; Vespoidea; FORMICIDAE, Myrmicinae

GENERAL NOTE: Widely spread in the tropics by human commerce. Distriubuted from Samoa to Society Islands and Hawai‘i. (W&T67) A tramp species distributed by recent human commerce.

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: TaylorDSIR;

References:
Special Reference: W&T67 refer to: Brown (1954),

Data Update History (information):
zB02, zD05b

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