CHECKLIST OF THE ANTS OF MICHIGAN (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) George C. Wheeler[1], Jeanette N. Wheeler[2], and Paul B. Kannowski[3] [1]Deceased.,[2]Research Associates, Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Address: 3338 NE 58th Avenue, Silver Springs, FL 34488-9464. [3]Adjunct Curator of Insects, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Address: Department of Biology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019. (NOTE: This document has been slightly modified for the WWW from its original appearance in Vol.26, No. 1 of the Great Lakes Entomologist , pp. 297-310, 1994.) ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION RESULTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ... FORMICINAE ABSTRACT A total of 113 species of ants is recorded by county from the state of Michigan. The list is based upon literature records and specimens in the authors' collections and those of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and the Michigan State University Department of Entomology. The list includes 3 species in Ponerinae, 44 in Myrmicinae, 6 in Dolichoderinae, and 60 in Formicinae. Ten species represent new state records. Five distribution patterns are evident: statewide (39 species), southern counties only (5), southern 3/4th of Lower Peninsula (10), Lower Peninsula (17), and Upper Peninsula (2). Forty species have been collected too infrequently to determine the distribution within the state. INTRODUCTION The earliest record of ants collected in Michigan is W. M. Wheeler's (1905) description of | |
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