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

Figure 15. Tapinoma sessile, Ellis Co. (148 colonies of Tapinoma collected).

Subfamily Dolichoderinae

Dolichoderinae ants are frequently encountered in Kansas. Most species are scavengers. Colonies are usually moderate in size (several hundred to several thousand individuals). These ants are often locally abundant and may be the only species encountered in the harsher environments in the state. Dorymyrmex insana and Forelius pruinosus are the two species most commonly encountered in Kansas.

61. Dolichoderus mariae Forel 1885.

62. Dorymyrmex flavus McCook 1879 [figure 14, page 11].

63. Dorymyrmex insanus (Buckley) 1866.

64. Forelius Maccooki (Forel) 1886.

65. Forelius pruinosus analis (Andre) 1893 [figures 5 and 6].

I 66. Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius) 1793.

67. Tapinoma sessile (Say) 1836 [figure 15, above].

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