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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: United States
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Nearctic

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 5 times found in gambel oak/grassland, 5 times found in sagebrush desert, 3 times found in grassy slope, 2 times found in oak/pine woodland, 2 times found in grass/oak scrub, 1 times found in ponderosa pine/oak woodland, 1 times found in grassland, low oak scrub, 2 times found in low scrub, 3 times found in pinyon pine forest, 2 times found in shrub steppe, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 51 times under stone, 3 times nest under stone, 3 times forager, 2 times nocturnal foragers, 1 times nest under rock, 1 times alate emergence, 2 times ex sifted leaf litter, 1 times under rock beneath oak, 1 times nest under rock on exposed hill, 2 times nest bnth stone, 1 times nest beneath rock, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 60 times search, 3 times hand collecting, 4 times direct collection, 1 times Davis sifter, 1 times Winkler, 1 times observation.

Elevations: collected from 1290 - 2630 meters, 1978 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1927-07-20 and 2020-07-03

Type specimens: Paratype: fmnhins0000062730, fmnhins0000062731, fmnhins0000062732, fmnhins0000062733, fmnhins0000099051; paratype of Lasius sitiens: casent0903205

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