Forelius mccooki
Appearance
Forelius mccooki | |
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Worker | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Genus: | Forelius |
Species: | F. mccooki
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Binomial name | |
Forelius mccooki (McCook, 1880)
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Synonyms | |
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Forelius mccooki is a species of ant in the genus Forelius. Described by McCook in 1880, the species is endemic to the United States and Mexico, where they nest in soil surrounded by a typically small mound, and also nests under stones.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35: 197-275 (page 249)
External links
[edit]- Media related to Forelius mccooki at Wikimedia Commons