Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Leptothorax curvispinosus Mayr, 1866a PDF: 508, pl., fig. 13 (w.) U.S.A. Nearctic. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: “Nordamerika”: (no further data). Type-depositories: MSNG, NNML. Type notes: 1)
Wheeler, 1903d PDF: 240, gives type-locality as, “?District of Columbia”. 2)
Mackay, 2000 PDF: 338, says specimens could not be located in Roger’s collection in MNHU, but in the original description Mayr comments that they are “im zoologischen Museum in Leyden”.
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Status as species:
Mayr, 1886d PDF: 451 (in key);
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 261;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 124;
Emery, 1895d PDF: 320;
Wheeler, 1903d PDF: 239;
Wheeler, 1905j PDF: 385;
Wheeler, 1906g PDF: 9;
Wheeler, 1908i PDF: 621;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 567;
Wheeler, 1913d PDF: 114;
Wheeler, 1916r: 588;
Wheeler, 1917k PDF: 461;
Emery, 1924f PDF: 258;
Dennis, 1938 PDF: 289;
Wing, 1939 PDF: 162;
Wesson & Wesson, 1940 PDF: 96;
Buren, 1944a PDF: 286;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 263;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 817;
Smith, 1958c PDF: 131;
Carter, 1962a PDF: 6 (in list);
Smith, 1967a PDF: 358;
Hunt & Snelling, 1975 PDF: 22;
Smith, 1979: 1392;
DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 138;
Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 97;
Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 302;
Bolton, 1995b: 237;
Mackay, 2000 PDF: 337 (redescription);
Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 122;
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 271;
Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 45;
Deyrup & Cover, 2004a PDF: 58 (in key);
Coovert, 2005 PDF: 72;
MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 72;
Ellison et al., 2012: 327;
Deyrup, 2017: 144.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: United States Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic
Distribution Notes:
NEARCTIC: USA (ME, FL, IA, KS, OK, TX, MA, CT)
Biology:
Forest, woodland, parks, campuses
Notes:
There is a yellower, slightly shinier, shorter-spined and strictly canopy-dwelling form that keys to this species, but may be distinct. Single workers of this arboreal form only have been found after storms on blown-down limbs and trunks of oak and walnut.
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 18 times found in mixed broadleaf/pine forest, 7 times found in broadleaf forest, 6 times found in riparian mixed hardwood forest, 3 times found in cedar/hardwood, 3 times found in mixed pine/oak, 1 times found in hickory/juniper woods, 1 times found in Suburban with wide-spaced, 5 times found in Beech-maple forest, 4 times found in Great Lakes hardwood forest, 1 times found in upland hardwood forest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 19 times ex rotten hickory nut in leaf litter, 7 times ex sifted litter, 4 times nest in acorn, 3 times nest in stick, 6 times ex rotten acorn in leaf litter, 10 times at lights, 5 times ex sifted leaf litter, 5 times ground cover, 6 times in acorn, 1 times queenrite nest in dead composit stalk, 1 times hardwood trees, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 42 times hand collecting, 8 times search, 10 times Winkler, 13 times Berlese, 5 times direct collection, 4 times Berlese funnel, 2 times sweeping, 2 times Lindgren funnel trap baited with IPS lure, 2 times pitfall, 1 times beating, 1 times Berlese|298 lbs, 273 liters, ...
Elevations: collected from 15 - 980 meters, 320 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1908-05-01 00:00:00.0 and 2023-07-24 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Leptothorax curvispinosus: casent0919744; syntype of Temnothorax curvispinosus: casent0901789; type of Leptothorax curvispinosus: focol2040, focol2041
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