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

Subfamily Myrmicinae

Myrmicinae ants are most commonly encountered in Kansas. They have a diverse variety of habits (the harvester ants discussed previously belong to this subfamily). Crematogaster punctulata and Monomorium minimum are the two most common species on a statewide basis; many others are locally abundant.

13. Aphaenogaster fulva Roger 1863.

14. Aphaenogaster mariae Forel 1886.

15. Aphaenogaster rudis (Emery) 1895.

16. Aphaenogaster tennesseensis (Mayr) 1862 [figure 8, below].

17. Aphaenogaster texana (Emery) 1895.

18. Aphaenogaster treatae pluteicornis Wheeler and Wheeler 1934.

19. Crematogaster ashmeadi Mayr 1886.

20. Crematogaster cerasi (Fitch) 1854.

Figure 8. Aphaenogaster tennesseensis, Douglas Co. (191 colonies of Aphaenogaster collected).

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