Species list of ants collected in central and north-central British Columbia, 1999 - 2005.
Determinations: Rob Higgins identified the majority of the ants from the Houston area. Dr. André Francoeur (Directeur, Centre de données sur la biodiversité du Québec, Chicoutimi, Québec) (Myrmica, Leptothorax) and W.B. Preston (946 McMillan Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba) (all other genera) kindly identified species collected in 1999 around Prince George, and Dr. Francoeur verified identifications by Rob Higgins for later collections. The majority of these collections are from forest environments.Nomenclature follows Bolton, B. 1995. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA., 504 pp.
Species followed by an asterix are new to the region, i.e., there are no records from adjacent regions reported in the literature.
Prince George
Myrmicinae
- Aphaenogaster occidentalis Emery*
- Myrmica alaskensis Wheeler
- Myrmica brevispinosa Wheeler
- Myrmica fracticornis Forel (=detritinodis Emery)*
- Myrmica incompleta Provancher
- Manica invidia Wheeler (=mutica Emery)*
- Leptothorax muscorum Nylander (=canadensis Provancher)
Dolichoderinae
- Tapinoma sessile (Say)
Formicinae
- Brachymyrmex depilis Emery*
- Camponotus herculeanus (Linnaeus)
- Camponotus modoc Wheeler
- Camponotus vicinus Mayr*†
- Lasius pallitarsis (Provancher)
- Lasius subumbratus Viereck*
- Formica neogagates group
- Formica lasioides Emery
- Formica rufa group
- Formica obscuripes Forel
- Formica obscuriventris Mayr*
- Formica fusca group
- Formica argentea Wheeler*
- Formica fusca Linnaeus
- Formica hewitti Wheeler* †
- Formica neorufibarbis Emery
- Formica sanguinea group
- Formica aserva Forel (=subnuda Wheeler)
- Polyergus breviceps Emery
Houston
Myrmicinae
- Myrmica alaskensis Wheeler
- Myrmica incompleta Provancher
- Myrmica fracticornis Forel (=detritinodis Emery)*
- Leptothorax muscorum Nylander (=canadensis Provancher)
Formicinae
- Camponotus herculeanus (Linnaeus)
- Lasius pallitarsis (Provancher)
- Lasius alienus (Foerster)*
- Formica fusca group
- Formica accreta Francoeur
- Formica argentea Wheeler
- Formica fusca Linnaeus
- Formica hewitti Wheeler
- Formica neorufibarbis Emery
- Formica rufa group
- Formica dakotensis Emery*†
- Formica obscuriventris Mayr
- Formica sanguinea group
- Formica aserva Forel (=subnuda Wheeler)
- Polyergus breviceps Emery
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