Taxonomic History
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Aphaenogaster uinta Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 517 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. Nearctic.
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Combination in
Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma):
Emery, 1921c PDF: 60.
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- AntWeb. Version 8.45.1. California Academy of Science, online at https://www.antweb.org. Accessed 15 December 2022.
Distribution
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Colo., Idaho, Utah, Nev.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
General Ecology
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Nests are in fully exposed areas of great aridity.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Brief Summary
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A (North American) Great Basin and Colorado Plateau ant that favors arid areas. It can be found in cool desert, pinyon-juiper and coniferious forest habitats. Aphaenogaster uinta nest under wood or stones but will also build in exposed situations, creating nest openings with 6 to 8 cm craters. They forage nocturnally and nests can contain several hundred workers.
Diagnostic Description
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A small to medium-sized bicolored species with a yellowish-red head and mesonotum that is partially shiny. The gaster is strongly shining and is much darker than the rest of the body.
Distribution
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Neartic; Nevada, northern California, southwestern Colorado, southern Idaho, Utah and northeastern Arizona.
Aphaenogaster uinta
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Aphaenogaster uinta is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.[1][2][3]
References
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^ "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera", Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28(1): 80-112.
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^ Ward, P.S. (2007). "Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants". Zootaxa 1668 549–563
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^ "AntWeb". antweb.org. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
- Hansson C, Lachaud J, Pérez-Lachaud G (2011). "Entedoninae wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) associated with ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in tropical America, with new species and notes on their biology". ZooKeys 134: 62–82.
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Aphaenogaster uinta: Brief Summary
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Aphaenogaster uinta is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
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