Strumigenys rogeri Emery

Type location Antilles Is., St. Thomas I. (Emery, 1890b: 68, illustrated, worker; Forel, 1893g: 378, queen); junior synonyms incisa (Godfrey, 1907: 102, worker) from Great Britain (hothouse) and sulfurea from Gabon (Samkita, by F. Faure, in Santschi, 1915c: 261, worker) (see Bolton, 1995). A pan-global tramp species .

Emery's (1890b) description is at . Santschi's (1915c) description of sulfurea, gives TL as 1.6 mm - . Brown (1954k: 20ff) gave notes; these are at and . Bolton's modern description (1983) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.3-2.8 mm; strongly developed pre-ocular notch extending on to ventral surface of head; simple dentition, long straight mandibles; long antennal scapes; upper scrobe margins indented and no flange; Colour dull yellow to light medium brown (Bolton, 1983: 387, illustrated full-face view and head profile).

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102080.

From Nigeria, listed by Bolton (1983) as a species which he collected at CRIN.

Ghana records include CRIG (B. Bolton; D. Leston). Since described as widespread, from their leaf litter samples (177 workers from 6 sites) in the semi-deciduous forest zone by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Ivory Coast records included Bingerville, Issoneu, Languédédou and Tai Forest (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret); Man, Sangouine and Sassandra (I. Löbl), Divo (L. Brader), Banco Forest and Nzi Noua (W.L. & D.E. Brown) (Bolton, 1983).

In Cameroun, at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson) and near Yaoundé (G. Terron); also from Gabon, Angola, and Burundi (Bolton, 1983).

The photomontages are of specimens from Tanzania, West Usambara Mts, Lushoto District, Grant's Lodge; Mkusu R., 3-4 km upstream of Kifungilo; 1660 m; Vasily Grebennikov; 03-08.x.2002. Other images can be seen in the folders at - and .

The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park, Camp Base, 9.vi-20.vi.2006; Winkler funnel of leaf litter; collected by Yves Braet, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folders at - and .