Amblyopone Erichson

Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68 : 25

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scientific name	Amblyopone Erichson
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Ants in the genus Amblyopone have cryptic foraging habits and are specialist predators on geophilomorph centipedes and other arthropods living in soil or rotten wood. Two species are known from California: A. oregonensis (Wheeler) is found in shaded, mediumelevation coniferous forests in northern California, while A. pallipes (Haldeman) is widespread in chaparral and low elevation woodland.

Species identification: Ward (1988). Additional references: Brown (1960a), Creighton (1940b), Haskins (1928), Lattke (1991d), Lacau and Delabie (2002), Traniello (1978, 1982).

References

Brown, W. L., Jr. (1960 a) Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 122, 143 - 230.

Creighton, W. S. (1940 b) A revision of the forms of Stigmatomma pallipes. American Museum Novitates, 1079, 1 - 8.

Haskins, C. P. (1928) Notes on the behavior and habits of Stigmatomma pallipes Haldeman. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 36, 179 - 184.

Lacau, S. & Delabie, J. H. C. (2002) Description de trois nouvelles especes d' Amblyopone avec quelques notes biogeographiques sur le genre au Bresil (Formicidae, Ponerinae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 107, 33 - 41.

Lattke, J. E. (1991 d) Studies of neotropical Amblyopone Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles), 428, 1 - 7.

Traniello, J. F. A. (1978) Caste in a primitive ant: absence of age polyethism in Amblyopone. Science (Washington, D. C), 202, 770 - 772.

Traniello, J. F. A. (1982) Population structure and social organization in the primitive ant Amblyopone pallipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge), 89, 65 - 80.

Ward, P. S. (1988) Mesic elements in the western Nearctic ant fauna: taxonomic and biological notes on Amblyopone, Proceratium, and Smithistruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 61, 102 - 124.