Aphaenogaster boulderensis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Aphaenogaster boulderensis Smith, 1941 valid

Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) boulderensis Smith, 1941: 120 (w.) U.S.A. (Arizona). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Arizona, Mead Lake of Boulder Dam, Horseshoe I., 2.v.1941 (V.M. Tanner). Primary type depository: USNM. Primary type specimen: FMNHINS0000062660. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 20 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: CASC, LACM, MCZC, USNM. Type notes: Smith records that 7 paratypes were deposited in the Tanner collection, current whereabouts unknown.

Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 215 (q.)
Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 142; Smith, 1951c: 795; Cole, 1966b: 9; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1360; Snelling & George, 1979: 70; Allred, 1982: 453; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 68; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 73; Ward, 2005: 65; Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 11; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 214 (redescription).

Citations

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Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
Shattuck, S. O.; Cover, S. 2016. Taxonomy of some little-understood North American ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4175:10-22. 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.2 PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1941. Two new species of Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Great Basin Naturalist 2:118-121. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Snelling, R. R.; George, C. D. 1979. The taxonomy, distribution and ecology of California desert ants. Report to California Desert Plan Program, Bureau of Land Management. Riverside: U.S. Dept. Interior, 335 + 89 pp.
Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
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