Species: Myrmica americana

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Myrmica sabuleti subsp. americana Weber, 1939b PDF: 144 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Connecticut). Nearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “two colonies”). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Connecticut, Colebrook, 16.viii.1904, and 24.viii.1904 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

[Myrmica sabuleti subsp. americana Wing, 1939 PDF: 162. Nomen nudum (attributed to Weber). (Date of publication 16.vi.1939.)]

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953a PDF: 116 (l.)

Subspecies of Myrmica sabuleti: Wesson & Wesson, 1940 PDF: 94; Cole, 1942 PDF: 368; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944 PDF: 242; Buren, 1944a PDF: 283; Weber, 1948a PDF: 288 (redescription); Smith, 1951c PDF: 790; Smith, 1958c PDF: 113; Smith, 1967a PDF: 350.

Status as species: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 94; Carter, 1962a PDF: 6 (in list); Hunt & Snelling, 1975 PDF: 21; Francoeur, 1977b PDF: 206; Yensen et al., 1977 PDF: 182; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b PDF: 389; Smith, 1979: 1348; Allred, 1982: 490; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 22; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 139; MacKay et al., 1988 PDF: 92 (in key); Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 303; Bolton, 1995b: 277; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 156; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 34; MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 70; Ward, 2005 PDF: 66; Ellison et al., 2012: 281.

// Distribution

Distribution:

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

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68

Myrmica americana WeberHNS 1939b

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 14 times found in Meadow, 8 times found in Short grass prairie, 8 times found in Black oak dunes, 6 times found in shortgrass prairie, 1 times found in sagebrush/gambel oak ecotone, 1 times found in grass, sage, bare soil, 3 times found in Mixed grass prairie, 3 times found in Ceder-oak- meadow, 1 times found in desert, 2 times found in Ponderosa pine forest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 17 times under rock, 1 times ex sifted leaf litter, 1 times under stone, 1 times mixed grass praire, 2 times leaf litter, 1 times under log on beach, 1 times under boulder, meadow, 1 times under board, 1 times top of foothill, 1 times stray, 1 times roadway, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 3 times search, 4 times direct collection, 1 times Winkler, 1 times flying.

Elevations: collected from 80 - 2347 meters, 1506 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1936-05-12 00:00:00.0 and 2020-05-24 00:00:00.0

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Species: Myrmica americana Weber, 1939

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