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AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE ANTS OF IDAHO (HYMEOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. C. Cole Jr.
A. C. Cole Jr.
Affiliation:
Lansing, Mich.
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The known ants of the state of Idaho comprise about 73 named species, subspecies and varieties. They occupy a wide variety of habitats ranging from dunes of pure sand, barren and wind-blown, to forests of yellow pine, fir and spruce, with an abundance of shade and moistuce. Because of the large amount of vegetation in the montane forests and subalpine pine meadows a large percentage of the ant fauna lives there, if not exclusively at least in very great numbers. It is, however, rather surprising to observe the large number of species which nest on the dry plains of sagebrush, bromegras and rabbitbrush, and on the scattered alkaline flats of greasewood in the southern part of the state.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , February 1936 , pp. 34 - 39
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1936

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* A term suggested by the writer for designating the type of the soldier caste. From the Greek, meaning “soldier.”