Polyergus Latreille

Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68 : 30

publication ID

21008

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6268111

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scientific name

Polyergus Latreille
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Genus Polyergus Latreille View in CoL   HNS

The members of this genus are obligate slave-raiders of other ants, mostly species in the Formica fusca-group   HNS . The California populations of Polyergus   HNS are here treated as a single variable species, P. breviceps Emery   HNS . This implies synonymy of P. laeviceps Wheeler   HNS (type locality: Mt. Tamalpais, California) under P. breviceps   HNS but no formal change is proposed here because the entire complex needs comprehensive taxonomic evaluation. Within California there is considerable interregional variation in worker morphology and biology (including the host species attacked), but I have seen no evidence of more than one species occurring in any given locality. One might expect there to be pronounced interpopulation variation in P. breviceps   HNS because of the limited dispersal of the queens (Topoff 1999). References (partial list): Agosti (1994b), Creighton (1950a), Greenberg et al. (2004), Hasegawa et al. (2002), Hölldobler (1985), Topoff (1990, 1999), Wheeler (1968).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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