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Taxonomic history
Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 60. |
Subspecies of Aphaenogaster texana: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 153. |
Raised to species: Umphrey, 1996 PDF: 558 (in key). |
Aphaenogaster carolinensis (North Carolina, USA).
Found most commonly in these habitats: 246 times found in deciduous forest, 147 times found in pine flatwoods, 126 times found in oak-hickory forest in Black Belt Prairie, 92 times found in mixed forest, 47 times found in mixed flatwoods, 8 times found in hardwood forest, 36 times found in Black Belt Prairie, 28 times found in upland hardwood forest, 25 times found in nest in sandy bank of creek in deciduous forest, 17 times found in bottomland hardwood forest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 32 times leaf litter, 19 times litter, 20 times soil and litter, 9 times litter and soil, 1 times sifted litter from forest floor, 2 times ex sifted leaf litter, 1 times nest under tile, 2 times log stage 5, 2 times log stage 4, 2 times litter and humus, 2 times forest floor, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 527 times pitfall trap, 186 times Berlese funnel, 185 times general collecting, 51 times pitfall traps, 15 times Lindgren funnel trap, 15 times Berlese, 0 times pitfall trap peripheral to cultivated cotton, 2 times Winkler, 0 times hardwood litter, 6 times Lindgren funnel trap baited with Typosan, 4 times peanut butter on Quercus rubra, ...
Elevations: collected from 5 - 716 meters, 225 meters average
Type specimens: