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Brown — Strumigenys 
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Although this specimen is labeled as “type,” Smith never designated 
a type in print, and at least some of his original specimens exist else- 
where (e.g., in the Munich Museum). 
Distribution : Amazon Basin ; known only from the type series. 
Synonym: S. batesi Forel. 
2. Strumigenys godmani Forel, 1899 
Brown, 1953b: 55-56, worker, female, variation. 
Biology: Lives in wet forest. The nest I found in Panama was in 
a small rotten log in cloud forest. 
New records: Panama: Progreso, Chiriqui Prov. (F. M. Gaige 
leg.) ; Cerro Campana, about 950 m altitude, Panama Prov. (W. L. 
Brown, Jr. leg.). 
Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama, British Guiana. 
Synonym : S. ferox Weber. 
3. Strumigenys planeti Brown, 1953 
Brown, 1953b: 57-59, worker, female, variation, distribution. 
Biology: Apparently a rain forest species. Weber (1952) reports 
a nest taken in a wet mossy log in a cacao plantation on Trinidad. 
New record: Peru: Monson Valley, Tingo Maria, winged female: 
>( E. I. Schlinger and E. S. Ross leg.) . 
Distribution : Trinidad, Amazon Basin to Bolivia and Peru. 
4. Strumigenys smithii Forel, 1886 
Brown, 1953c: 104-107, worker, variation, distribution, biology. 
Biology: Nests in rotten logs, rotten twigs or, on St. Vincent, rare- 
ly in sod. Primarily a forest species. 
New records: Colombia: Loma Larga, Sierra Santa Marta (F. M. 
Gaige leg.). Panama: Cerro Campana, 800 m, Province of Panama 
(G. B. Fairchild and W. L. Brown, Jr. leg.) . 
Distribution: Costa Rica south to Santa Catarina, Brazil, and 
Amazonian Bolivia; St. Vincent, B. W. I. 
Synonym : S. smithi var. inaequalis Emery. 
5. Strumigenys hemidisca Brown, 1953 (Fig. 22) 
Brown, 1953c: 107-108, worker. 
Biology: The type series came from orchid plants intercepted in 
U. S. plant quarantine, and so were probably nesting amid the epiphy- 
tes in trees. 
Distribution : Venezuela ; known only from the type series. 
6. Strumigenys prospiciens Emery, 1906 
Brown, 1953c: 108-110, worker, female, distribution. 
