Paratrechina Motschoulsky

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

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scientific name	Paratrechina Motschoulsky
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These grounddwelling ants are infrequently encountered in natural habitats of California, except P. hystrix Trager , a desert species. P. vividula (Nylander) is common in many urban locations, and behaves like an introduced species, although it is assumed to be native to Mexico ( Trager 1984b). A second tramp species, P. longicornis (Latreille) , of Old World origin, is established at some locations in southern California.

Species identification: keys in Trager (1984). Additional references: Creighton (1950a), MacKay (1998), Smith (1965), Saporito et al. (2004), Wetterer et al. (1999).

References

Saporito, R. A., Garraffo, H. M., Donnelly, M. A., Edwards, A. L., Longino, J. T. & Daly, J. W. (2004) Formicine ants: an arthropod source for the pumiliotoxin alkaloids of dendrobatid poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 8045 - 8050.

Wetterer, J. K., Miller, S. E., Wheeler, D. E., Olson, C. A., Polhemus, D. A., Pitts, M., Ashton, I. W., Himler, A. G., Yospin, M. M., Helms, K. R., Harken, E. L., Gallaher, J., Dunning, C. E., Nelson, M., Litsinger, J., Southern, A. & Burgess, T. L. (1999) Ecological dominance by Paratrechina longicornis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), an invasive tramp ant, in Biosphere 2. Florida Entomologist, 82, 381 - 388.

Creighton, W. S. (1950 a) The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 104, 1 - 585.

MacKay, W. P. (1998) A remarkable new species of Paratrechina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the state of Colima, Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 74, 99 - 101.

Smith, M. R. (1965) House-infesting ants of the eastern United States. Their recognition, biology, and economic importance. United States Department of Agriculture. Technical Bulletin, 1326, 1 - 105.

Trager, J. C. (1984 b) A revision of the genus Paratrechina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the continental United States. Sociobiology, 9, 49 - 162.