Strumigenys chiricahua ( Ward, 1988 )

Booher, Douglas B., 2021, The ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in western North America North of Mexico, Zootaxa 5061 (2), pp. 201-248 : 223-224

Strumigenys chiricahua ( Ward, 1988)

Distribution. USA; Arizona

Comments. This species is known from two collections and possibly a third. The holotype worker was collected in a Berlesate sample of concentrated leaf litter from an oak woodland, and a colony of more than 20 workers was extracted from a rotten root in a juniper woodland. Both validated collections were made in August at or near the Southwestern Research Station in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona. A third possible specimen is an alate queen tentatively identified from images. This specimen was collected by Gary Alpert in a Malaise trap 16 km southeast of Flagstaff in Walnut Canyon National Monument , Coconino County, in the bottom of a ravine (BugGuide 2020a).

Material examined: USA, Arizona, Coconino Co., Walnut Canyon National Monument , 16 km SE Flagstaff, 35.171583, -111.513917, 1946 m, 22 Aug 2017, ex. SLAM trap #1, in the bottom of ravine, 1 alate queen, coll. Gary Alpert, WP 243, [ MNA] ; USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., Chiricahua Mtns , 4.8 km W Portal, 31.88351, -109.17806, 1535 m, 11 Aug 2009, ex rotten root, Oak-pine-juniper woodland, 1 worker, coll. Brian L. Fisher, BLF22737, (casent0009929-d01)[ CASC] .