The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources red-lists a number of ant species. One species is Anergates atratulus (Schenck, 1852), a rarely collected social parasite introduced from Europe. The known distribution in North America is along the Atlantic seaboard. This note reports a huge range expansion in North America, to include Colorado. This finding is important because it provides useful information about the conservation and dispersal patterns of a rare, introduced, socially parasitic ant species.
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1 April 2009
New Distribution Record for the Social Parasitic Ant Anergates atratulus () (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): An Iucn Red-Listed Species
Shawn T. Dash,
Leticia Sanchez
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Western North American Naturalist
Vol. 69 • No. 1
April 2009
Vol. 69 • No. 1
April 2009
Anergates atratulus
black guest ant
Colorado
dispersal
introduced species
Tetramorium caespitum