Kansas School Naturalist: Checklist of Kansas Ants

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Volume 40, Number 2, April 1994:
Checklist of Kansas Ants

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- family formicidae (ants)
- - subfamily ponerinae
- - figures 1-7
- - subfamily ecitoninae
- - subfamily myrmicinae
- - figures 9-10
- - figures A & B
- - figures 11-12
- - figures 13-14
- - subfamily dolichoderinae
- - subfamily formicinae
- - figures 17-18
- how to make an ant collection
- for more information

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Checklist of Kansas Ants
by Mark B. DuBois

FAMILY FORMICIDAE (ants)

Subfamily Ponerinae

Ponerine ants are typically arthropod predators. Most colonies in Kansas are small (less than 100 individuals). Only Hypoponera opacior is found statewide. That species and Ponera pennsylvanica are the two species most likely encountered in this subfamily.

1. Amblyopone pallipes (Haldeman) 1844 [figures A and B, centerfold pages 8-9].

2. Hypoponera opacior (Forel) 1893.

3. Hypoponera sp. possibly a new species, see DuBois, 1985.

4. Ponera pennsylvanica Buckley 1866 [figure 7].

5. Proceratium pergandei Emery 1895.

6. Proceratium silaceum Roger 1863.

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