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Forelius mccooki

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Forelius mccooki
Forelius mccooki worker
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F. mccooki
Binomial name
Forelius mccooki
(McCook, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Formica foetida, Buckley, 1866
  • Forelius maccooki andrei Forel, 1912

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

  1. ^ Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35: 197-275 (page 249)