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{"title":"A NEW SPECIES OF PHEIDOLE FROM THE SOUTHWEST","authors":"R. Gregg","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.26283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.26283","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Pheidole is abundantly represented in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, but heretofore no member of the subgenus Ceratopheidole Pergande, has been recorded from the United States. A few specimens belonging to this group were received from Mr. C. P. Stroud, who collected them near Car rizozo, New Mexico, in the vicinity of the lava beds of the Tula rosa Basin. All of the ants are workers, but as far as can be ascertained from the published descriptions of the several New World forms in the group, it appears they represent a new spe cies. Pheidole (Ceratopheidole) clydei sp. nov. Worker. Length 2.8-3 mm. Head, exclusive of the mandibles, slightly longer than broad, sides some what convex, and posterior margin straight; occipital angles evenly rounded. Eyes convex and located midway between the anterior and posterior borders of the head. Clypeus convex, produced anteriorly, its margin smooth, but sinuate or broadly emarginate in the middle. Mandibles of the usual shape, with two large, apical teeth, and five to six denticles along the incisor mar gin. Antennae long and slender, the scape only slightly curved, and extend ing approximately i its length beyond the occipital corners of the head. Funiculus with an elongated, 4-segmented club, the segments subequal in length, and each about 1i to 2 times as long as wide, or even slightly longer. The remaining funicular segments slender, and about 1i times as long as wide. Thorax narrow, prothorax a little more than j as wide as the head; humeral angles rounded. Thorax is profile convex, but low; pro-mesonotal suture present and slightly impressed, meso-epinotal suture distinct. Epi notum long, flat, and nearly horizontal; declivity only j to i as long as the basal face. Spines long and sharp, fully i as long as the epinotal base, and directed slightly upward and outward. Petiole long and narrow, almost 3 times as long as wide; the node in profile low, with a long, concave an terior slope, and much shorter posterior slope. Postpetiole about as long as wide, convex above and flat beneath, subglobose, and twice as wide as the petiole. Abdomen of the usual shape. Front and gula shining, clypeus indistinctly granular, the remainder of the head sculptured with coarse punctures, giving a subopaque to opaque appear","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125777518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Species of Camponotus, Subg. Colobopsis from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidæ)","authors":"M. Smith, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.24828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24828","url":null,"abstract":"Ants of the genus Camponotus, subgenus Colobopsis Mayr, occur in all zoogeographical regions of the world except possibly the Ethiopian. They form small colonies of a few dozen to sev eral hundred individuals, nesting in culms of sedges, stalks of plants, branches of trees and shrubs, insect galls, hollow nuts and acorns, and crevices of wood. Some forms, if not all, may be polydomous. Although most of them are diurnal, there are also some that are nocturnal. Their food seems to be largely honeydew and the flesh of arthropods. In the species of this group there are dimorphic or feebly polymorphic workers, thelargest individuals of which are known as soldiers and are easily recognized by the peculiarly shaped subeylindrical head, the anterior portion of which is truncated and very often concave. The head is well adapted for blocking the small, circular openings of the nest to keep out intruders. Although the soldier and female can be readily distinguished from other forms of Cam ponotus, the worker and male are not so easily recognized. Camponotus (Colobopsis) nLathildece is, so far as I am aware, the second species to be described from Mexico, Emery having described cerberulus from a female collected in the State of","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"5 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1949-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114052046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New forms of Aphaenogaster and Novomessor.","authors":"J. Enzmann, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.26332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.26332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1947-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121216841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hercynia, a new genus of myrmicine ants.","authors":"J. Enzmann, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.26331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.26331","url":null,"abstract":"Among the ants sent to me from Panama there were two workers and a deflated female representing a new genus of the subfamily Myrmicini Lepeletier. Unfortunately only these three specimens were taken. The nest was under a stone; no other habit notes were given by the collector, who has promised to obtain more specimens if possible, and to study the habits of the new ant in greater detail. The systematics of ants have been studied very thoroughly by Mayr, Forel, Emery, Wheeler, Santschi, and others, and it is not often that a new genus is found by modern collectors. In pub lishing on the new ant at this time the hope is entertained that others possessing material from Panama may find this ant among their unidentified specimens and may be able to add to the pres ent scanty observations.","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1947-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116654577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new genus and species of ant from Guatemala (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).","authors":"M. Smith, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.24687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.24687","url":null,"abstract":"The species described below possesses such unusual characters that I have assigned it to a new genus, Perissomyrmex, the name meaning\" strange ant. ' Though definitely belonging to the sub family Myrmicinwe, its exact tribal placement is questionable. This is especially true since no winged forms are available for study. Even though these forms are lacking, I am provisionally placing the species in the tribe Myrmecinini. The most outstanding characters of the new genus are: The 9-segmented antenna with a more or less distinct 3-segmented club; median region of the clypeus with denticulate anterior border; lateral border of the clypeus forming a trenchant ridge in front of the antennal fossa; frontal carina poorly developed, not lobed, thus exposing base of scape and fossa; mandible elon gate, with 3-toothed masticatory border and another tooth on the superior border; promesonotal suture obsolescent or absent, meso epinotal impression well developed; epinotum with a pair of spines; anterior tibia with well developed, pectinate spur, each middle and posterior tibia without spurs; petiole and postpetiole nodiform, the former also pedunculate. Ants of this new genus resemble those of Pristomyrmex, but the resemblance is more superficial than real. There is a difference in the number of antennal segments, presence or absence of tibial spurs, development of frontal carinae and other characters; furthermore, no Pristomyrmex is known to occur in the Americas, the genus being native to Indo-China, Japan, Malaysia, New Guinea and Australia. Perissomyrmex may be an ancient genus whose taxonomic position and affinities cannot be determined until more specimens are available for study. WORKER.-Small, apparently monomorphic. Head large; pos","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"76 17-18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1947-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120895116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New House-Invading Ant from Massachusetts","authors":"J. Enzmann, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.26329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.26329","url":null,"abstract":"There are but a few species of ants which in our northern climate invade houses and make them their temporary or perma ment abodes. The most common of these are the black carpenter ant (Camponotus herculeanus pennsylvanicus), Solenopsis mo lesta, Tetramorium ccespitum and a few other species which were introduced into this country through commerce, and flourish in greenhouses. Wheeler, Ants, 1910, cited Camponotus herculeanus ferrugineus and novoboracensis as house pests, but these forms seem to invade human dwellings rarely and prefer the outdoor life. I have observed Crematogaster lineolata nesting beneath the porch of our house for several years, but this ant does not actually invade the house and steal provisions as Solenopsis does, or, like Camponotus, cause damage to the timbers. Some time ago a new ant invaded our kitchen, nesting in an inaccessible spot underneath the sink. Closer examination showed that this ant was an unrecorded form of Myrmica, a genus which has not been previously observed to inyade houses. No measures were taken to exterminate the ants while they were under obser vation; after several weeks they disappeared without trace, which seems to indicate that the kitchen had been a temporary abode.","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1946-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122324304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new form of Myrmecina.","authors":"J. Enzmann, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.26328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.26328","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Myrmecina Curtis 1829 is known from Europe, where the two species graminicola Latreille and sicula Ern. Andre occur. From the Indomalayan region a large number of species have been recorded (Cf. Emery, 1923, Gen. Ins.); Myrmecina seems to be absent from South America and Africa. In North America the genus is represented by two subspecies and one variety of the European M. graminicola, namely subspecies texana, subspecies americana and its variety brevispinosa. The new form described here resembles americana but is also close to the species type from the old world.","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1946-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128135201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crematogaster lineolata cerasi, the Cherry Ant of Asa Fitch (with a survey of the American forms of Crematogaster, subgenus Acrocoelia).","authors":"J. Enzmann, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.26330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.26330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1946-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125059737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A study of the subspecies of Odontomachus haematoda (L.) of the United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).","authors":"M. Smith, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.24671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.24671","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"18 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1939-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125903341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Generic Reallocation for Myrmoteras Kuroiwæ","authors":"W. Creighton, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.26729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.26729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The New York Entomological Society","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1939-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123633124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}