Neivamyrmex leonardi (W. M. Wheeler)

Snelling, G. C. & Snelling, R. R., 2007, New synonymy, new species, new keys to Neivamyrmex army ants of the United States., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. (Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80), pp. 459-550 : 476-477

publication ID

21290

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6246841

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6FBDD534-5862-1772-E7D4-0BBDFC30EAF6

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scientific name

Neivamyrmex leonardi (W. M. Wheeler)
status

 

Neivamyrmex leonardi (W. M. Wheeler) View in CoL   HNS

Figures 27, 38, 53

Eciton (Acamatus) leonardi Wheeler   HNS , 1915: 392 (w). USA, California, Point Loma (MCZC) examined.

Eciton (Acamatus) peninsulare Mann   HNS , 1926: 98 (w). MEXICO: Baja California [ Sur ], La Palma Davila ( USNM) examined .

Eciton (Neivamyrmex) leonardi   HNS : M. R. Smith, 1942: 570 (w). Creighton, 1950: 72 (w).

Eciton (Neivamyrmex) peninsulare   HNS : Borgmeier, 1949: 101 (w).

Neivamyrmex leonardi   HNS : Borgmeier, 1955: 431 - 434 (w). Watkins, 1971: 101 - 103 (w). Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973: 38 (w). Watkins, 1976: 13, 18 (w). Cokendolpher & Francke, 1990: 11.

DISTRIBUTION (Map 6)

UNITED STATES: Oklahoma and Texas, west to California and Nevada; MEXICO, Baja California Sur and Tamaulipas south to Guerrero.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED

UNITED STATES, ARIZONA, Pima Co.: Tucson , Prince Rd. ( UNAR) . Santa Cruz Co.: Nogales ( LACM) . CALIFORNIA, Inyo Co.: Saline Valley Rd. , 1.7 mi. W Grapevine Canyon Rd. (36 º 30.7 " N 117 º 33.3 " W) ( GCSC, CUIC, LACM, UCDC) GoogleMaps ; 2 km ESE Furnace Creek Inn , Death Valley Natl. Pk. (36 º 26 ' N 116 º 50 ' W), 100 m, ex Solenopsis xyloni   HNS middens ( UCDC) GoogleMaps ; 9 - mile Canyon (35.85 º N 117.90 º W), 3400 ft. ( LACM) GoogleMaps ; 7 mi. S. Little Lake ( LACM) ; 13.44 km SSE Lone Pine , ex Messor pergandei   HNS midden ( LACM) . Los Angeles Co.: Santa Monica Mtns ., Stunt Ranch (34 º 06 ' N 118 º 39 ' W), 410 m ( LACM, UCDC) GoogleMaps . Riverside Co.: Deep Canyon , 1300 ft. ( UCRC) ; Deep Cyn. , 5200 ft. ( UNAR) . San Bernardino Co.: “ Barstow Fossil Beds ” ( LACM)) ; 4 mi. NNW Adelanto ( LACM) . San Diego Co.: Point Loma ( USNM) . NEVADA, Churchill Co.: Sand Springs Dune 1200 m 39 º 17 ' N 118 º 25 ' W ( UCDC) GoogleMaps . Lyon Co.: Weeks 1280 m (39 º 18 ' N 119 º 15 ' W), 1280 m ( UCDC) GoogleMaps . TEXAS, Mclennan Co. ( SEMC) . Bosque Co. ( SEMC) .

MEXICO, GUERRERO, 29 km NE Fila de Caballo ( GCSC, WPMC) .

DISCUSSION

This is a poorly known species. The synonymous form N. peninsulare   HNS was described from a few workers taken under a stone. Watkins (1971) also reported finding it under a stone in Texas and “ ... observed a few workers ... in a weak nocturnal raiding column of N. opacithorax   HNS ... ” Our specimens from 9 - mile Canyon were found in soft sand at a depth of about 45 cm. This was in Sagebrush Desert with some intermixed Larrea. This ant has also been collected from Creosote Bush ScrubJoshua Tree Woodland. In the chaparral biome of Deep Canyon, Wheeler and Wheeler (1973) found a nest under a slightly buried stone.

Mann (1925) described the staphylinid beetle Pulicomorpha coecum from specimens collected with a colony of N. leonardi   HNS (as Eciton peninsularis Mann   HNS ) in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

The queen and male forms are unknown; however based on range data we surmise that N. minor   HNS is probably the male form of N. leonardi   HNS .

Automontage images of N. leonardi   HNS may be viewed at antweb. org.

USNM

USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]

USNM

USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]

LACM

USA, California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

GCSC

Gordon C. Snelling

CUIC

USA, New York, Ithaca, Cornell University

UCDC

USA, California, Davis, University of California, R.M. Bohart Museum of Entomology

UCRC

USA, California, Riverside, University of California

UCRC

USA, California, Riverside, University of California

LACM

USA, California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

UCDC

USA, California, Davis, University of California, R.M. Bohart Museum of Entomology

SEMC

USA, Kansas, Lawrence, University of Kansas, Snow Entomological Museum

GCSC

Gordon C. Snelling

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Neivamyrmex

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