A new ant species of strumigenys smith, 1860 (hymenoptera: formicidae) from the brazilian atlantic forest “2279

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    Considering the repeated evolution of similar forms within the large clade containing all species, the hypothesis that Strumigenys exists as a single, hyperdiverse genus is more likely; otherwise, the clade would need to be split into several genera, perhaps more than it had been in the past, prior to the 1990s (Strumigenys itself would be composed of the Neotropical long trap-jaw species only). At the species level, the genus was completely revised by Bolton, who divided it into many species groups that are usually restricted to one biogeographic zone and composed of a . . .

     

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