Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Myrmica lineolata Say, 1836 PDF: 290 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Indiana). Nearctic. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Type-locality: U.S.A.: (no further data, “very common in various parts of the United States”) (
T. Say). Type-depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: 1) Type-locality nominated as U.S.A.: Indiana, by
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 213. 2)
Morgan & Mackay, 2017 PDF: 221 give type-locality as U.S.A.: Massachusetts.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a PDF: 129;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 37;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 396;
Mayr, 1866b PDF: 901 (redescription);
Mayr, 1870b PDF: 990 (in key);
McCook, 1880 PDF: 187;
Mayr, 1886d PDF: 462;
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 262;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 83;
Pergande, 1893 PDF: 36;
Emery, 1895d PDF: 281;
Wheeler, 1900c PDF: 48;
Wheeler, 1904f PDF: 301;
Wheeler, 1905j PDF: 378;
Wheeler, 1906g PDF: 3;
Wheeler, 1906i PDF: 336;
Wheeler, 1908h PDF: 479;
Wheeler, 1908i PDF: 621;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 564;
Santschi, 1911d PDF: 5;
Wheeler, 1913d PDF: 115;
Wheeler, 1916r: 585;
Wheeler, 1917k PDF: 461;
Wheeler, 1919h PDF: 111;
Emery, 1922c PDF: 141;
Essig, 1926 PDF: 859;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 388;
Smith, 1930a PDF: 4;
Wheeler, 1932a PDF: 9;
Cole, 1937a PDF: 101;
Dennis, 1938 PDF: 282;
Wing, 1939 PDF: 162;
Wesson & Wesson, 1940 PDF: 93;
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944 PDF: 245;
Buren, 1944a PDF: 288;
Enzmann, 1946c PDF: 93;
Brown, 1949a PDF: 48;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 210;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 809;
Smith, 1958c PDF: 126;
Carter, 1962a PDF: 6 (in list);
Smith, 1967a PDF: 356;
Buren, 1968b PDF: 93 (in key);
Smith, 1979: 1379;
Johnson, 1988: 319 (redescription);
DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 138;
Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 96;
Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 302;
Bolton, 1995b: 156;
Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 95;
Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 44;
Coovert, 2005 PDF: 61;
MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 72;
Ellison et al., 2012: 239;
Deyrup, 2017: 63;
Morgan & Mackay, 2017 PDF: 221 (redescription);
Ward & Blaimer, 2022 PDF: 902.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Canada,
Mexico,
United States Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Nearctic bioregion
Distribution Notes:
NEARCTIC: USA (MA)
Biology:
Swampy and floodplain forest
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 23 times found in short grass prairie, 11 times found in mixed hardwood forest, 12 times found in Black oak dunes, 8 times found in On mesquite, 7 times found in deciduous forest, 6 times found in Mixed deciduous forest, 3 times found in mixed pine/oak, 2 times found in cedar/hardwood, 5 times found in Oak grove, 5 times found in Old-hickory forest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 22 times under rock, 15 times log stage 4, 7 times ex sifted litter, 10 times log stage 3, 4 times under stone, 6 times log stage 2, 5 times under wood, 5 times ex sifted leaf litter, 4 times under boulder, 3 times ground nest, 2 times col. Robins Nature Trail, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 13 times Winkler, 7 times search, 5 times hand collecting, 6 times direct collection, 3 times Berlese, 2 times Winkler sift, 1 times 6L sifted litter, extracted in Winkler sack over 24 hours, 1 times Berlese funnel, 0 times pitfall.
Elevations: collected from 5 - 1981 meters, 677 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1879-12-25 00:00:00.0 and 2018-06-28 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Crematogaster lineolata subopaca: casent0904537; syntype of Crematogaster opaca texana: casent0912717; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Crematogaster lineolata lineolata lutescens: casent0904536
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