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Species: Tapinoma sessile

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Dolichoderinae Genus: Tapinoma

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Formica sessilis Say, 1836 PDF: 287 (w.q.) U.S.A. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Emery, 1895d PDF: 333 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951 PDF: 196 (l.); Crozier, 1970a PDF: 119 (k.); Taber & Cokendolpher, 1988 PDF: 95 (k.).

Combination in Tapinoma: Smith, 1858a PDF: 57.

Senior synonym of Tapinoma parva, Tapinoma boreale Roger (and its junior synonym Tapinoma boreale Provancher): Mayr, 1886d PDF: 434; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 353; of Tapinoma gracilis: Emery, 1895d PDF: 337; Wheeler, 1902g PDF: 20; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 353; of Tapinoma dimmocki: Shattuck, 1992c PDF: 153.

See also: Smith, 1928a PDF: 307; Smith, 1979: 1422; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 156; Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 153; Hamm, 2010 PDF: 24.

Distribution:

NEARCTIC: USA (AZ, MA)

Biology:

Found in virtually all habitats, but most common in riparian, grassland and ruderal sites. Impermanent nests in preformed cavities and spaces.

Comments:

Snelling list also recognizes a Tapinoma n. sp. From California.

Notes:

The North American ants going by the name Tapinoma sessile are almost certainly a species complex, even with the exclusion of the following species.

Taxon Page Author History

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Ward, P. S., 2005:

Specimen Data Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 23 times found in agricultural zone, 14 times found in oak woodland, 5 times found in coastal scrub, 6 times found in shrub steppe, 7 times found in Ponderosa pine forest, 4 times found in home, 3 times found in gambel oak woodland, 5 times found in Aspen forest, 2 times found in private residence, 1 times found in Acer negundo woodland, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods or in the following microhabitats: 52 times Bay Area Ant Survey (BAAS), 57 times search, 31 times under rock, 23 times pitfall, 6 times under wood, 3 times log stage 4, 1 times 1 maxi 4 mesh sack sample, 2 times Winkler, 1 times pitfall trap, 1 times under stone, 1 times Roadside, under stone, ...

Elevations: collected from 5 - 2926 meters, 1315 meters average