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Species: Temnothorax rugatulus

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Myrmicinae Genus: Temnothorax

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Leptothorax rugatulus Emery, 1895d PDF: 321 (w.) U.S.A. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Taber & Cokendolpher, 1988 PDF: 95 (k.).

Combination in Temnothorax (Myrafant): Smith, 1950a PDF: 30; in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 272.

Subspecies of Temnothorax curvispinosus: Wheeler, W.M. 1903c: 241.

Revived status as species: Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 509.

Senior synonym of Temnothorax annectens, Temnothorax cockerelli, Temnothorax mediorufus: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 269; of Temnothorax brunnescens: Mackay, 2000 PDF: 394.

Distribution:

collected from the Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co.

Biology:

Suffield military base

Taxon Page Author History

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Ward, P. S., 2005:

Specimen Data Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 4 times found in riparian oak woodland, 4 times found in conifer forest, 2 times found in Pseudotsuga-Quercus forest, 3 times found in shrub steppe, 2 times found in gambel oak woodland, 1 times found in Chaparral on steep hill, 1 times found in pine/sagebrush/grassland, 1 times found in secondgrowth broadleaf forest at river edge, 2 times found in ponderosa pine woodland, 1 times found in small clump of Acer grandidentatum and Quercus gambelii in dry ravine, surrounded by open grassland/sagebrush., ...

Collected most commonly using these methods or in the following microhabitats: 43 times search, 5 times Winkler, 3 times Davis sifter, 1 times ex. via beating shrubs, 1 times Winkler sample, 1 times beating, 1 times mixed

Elevations: collected from 10 - 4000 meters, 1067 meters average