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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Taxon Page Images:

An Aphaenogaster treatae worker carries an aphid (Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA).
Image copyright Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, United States
Neotropical Region: Americas
Palearctic Region: Georgia

Distribution Notes:

SE?

Biology:

Sand prairie, sandy old field, or other sandy or other highly-drained, acid soil habitats (loess hills)

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 0 times found in Black oak dunes, 0 times found in Oak-hickory forest, 0 times found in Mixed deciduous forest, 0 times found in mixed deciduous-pine forest, 0 times found in Mixed oak bluff forest, 0 times found in pine forest, 1 times found in sandpine scrub, 0 times found in Black oak invasion, 1 times found in scrubby flatwoods, 1 times found in ceretiola habitat, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times nest in sand.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 0 times In sand, 0 times Sweetfern pitfall, 1 times Berlese, 1 times hand collected, 1 times Nest in sand, 1 times Roots of Hemmock, In sand and burnt leaf litter, 0 times sweet fern pitfall, 0 times under bark, in soil.

Elevations: collected at 213 m

Type specimens: labeled as “cotype” but not a true type as it is not from the type locality: casent0900414; Lectotype of Aphaenogaster treatae: casent0907701

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