Myrmica trullicornis

Myrmica trullicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Myrmicini
Genus:	Myrmica
Species:	M. trullicornis
Binomial name
Myrmica trullicornis Buren, 1944 Specimen labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Myrmica of North America

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Nearctic Region: United States (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Paratype of Myrmica sabuleti trullicornis. Worker. Specimen code CASENT0900350. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Paratype of Myrmica sabuleti trullicornis. Worker. Specimen code casent0900350. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• trullicornis. Myrmica sabuleti subsp. trullicornis Buren, 1944a: 281 (w.q.) U.S.A.
  • Junior synonym of americana: Weber, 1948a: 288; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 790.
  • Subspecies of hamulata: Creighton, 1950a: 99; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1349; Bolton, 1995b: 284.
  • Status as species: Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 17.

Type Material

• Syntype, 34 workers, near Ames, Iowa, United States, 42°02′0″N 93°38′0″W, 30 April 1941, W.F. Buren.
• Syntype, worker, near Ames, Iowa, United States, 42°02′0″N 93°38′0″W, 30 April 1941, W.F. Buren, BMNH(E)1013744, CASENT0900350, The Natural History Museum.
• Syntype, 4 workers, near Ames, Iowa, United States, 42°02′0″N 93°38′0″W, 5 August 1939, W.F. Buren.
• Syntype, 11 workers, 1 queen, near Boone, Iowa, United States, 42°04′0″N 93°53′0″W, 3 May 1941, W.F. Buren.

References

• Buren, W. F. 1944a. A list of Iowa ants. Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 18: 277-312.
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104: 1-585.
• Shattuck, S.O., Cover, S. 2016. Taxonomy of some little-understood North American ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4175: 10–22 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.2).
• Weber, N. A. 1948a. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. II. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 41: 267-308.