Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Formica insana Buckley, 1866 PDF: 165 (w.q.) U.S.A. (Texas). Nearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of
Snelling, 1995a PDF: 4). Primary type locality: neotype U.S.A.: Texas, Howard County, Interstate 20, 12 mi. E Big Spring, 16.iv.1981 (
W.F. Buren). Primary type depository: USNM. Type notes: 1) Snelling also nominated as “neoparatypes” 49 workers, 1 queen; this category is not recognised by ICZN. 2) An earlier neotype designation by
Johnson, 1989b PDF: 185, was made redundant by
Snelling, 1995a PDF: 4. 3) Original syntype data: workers and queens (numbers not stated), U.S.A.: Texas (
S.B. Buckley); no material known to exist.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Junior synonym of
Dorymyrmex pyramicus:
Mayr, 1886c PDF: 365;
Mayr, 1886d PDF: 433;
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 256;
Pergande, 1893 PDF: 30;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 167;
Forel, 1895b PDF: 110;
Forel, 1899b PDF: 103;
Wheeler, 1902g PDF: 22;
Emery, 1913a PDF: 37;
Santschi, 1913h PDF: 41;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 348;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 837;
Smith, 1954c PDF: 9.
Status as species:
McCook, 1880 PDF: 185;
Snelling, 1973b PDF: 5;
Hunt & Snelling, 1975 PDF: 22;
Buren et al., 1976 PDF: 306;
Yensen et al., 1977 PDF: 183;
Smith, 1979: 1420;
Snelling & George, 1979: 171;
Dlussky, 1981b PDF: 48;
Allred, 1982: 459;
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 57;
DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 144;
MacKay et al., 1988 PDF: 101;
Johnson, 1989b PDF: 185;
Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 99;
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 338;
Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 83;
Bolton, 1995b: 182;
Snelling, 1995a PDF: 3 (redescription);
Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 253;
Coovert, 2005 PDF: 111;
Ward, 2005 PDF: 26;
Cuezzo & Guerrero, 2012 10.1155/2012/516058 PDF: 18 (redescription);
Guerrero, 2019 PDF: 709.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Brazil,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Cuba,
El Salvador,
Guatemala,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Panama,
Paraguay,
United States,
Venezuela Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical
Distribution Notes:
collected from the Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co.
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 6 times found in desert, 12 times found in chaparral, 9 times found in grassland, 4 times found in urban campus, 2 times found in juniper-oak woodland, 6 times found in roadside, 3 times found in oak/juniper woodland, 3 times found in pine/oak/thorn scrub, 4 times found in Sarcobatus scrub, 3 times found in shrub steppe, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 26 times ground nest, 14 times ground foragers, 9 times nest in soil, 3 times under stone, 7 times crater nest in soil, 5 times nests and foragers on soil, 7 times ground forager(s), 8 times on low vegetation, 3 times stray foragers, 5 times pitfall trap, 3 times crater nest, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 42 times hand collecting, 30pm times Oakley ShieldsIn swarms around E. side of SumacApprox. 12, 20 times search, 12 times direct collection, 6 times pitfall trap, 1 times at bait|cookie, surface, 2 times Malaise trap, 1 times UV light, 30 - 8 times Beating vegetation, mostly flowering Ericameria; 7, 2 times pitfall, 15 pm 29 June 2016 and picked up 13 hours later times transect of 8 pitfall traps (28 mm internal diameter), set out 8, ...
Elevations: collected from 5 - 2200 meters, 1041 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1890-09-23 00:00:00.0 and 2022-06-26 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: neoparatype of Dorymyrmex insanus: casent0902982
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia