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Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Deyrup: List of Florida Ants 43 AN UPDATED LIST OF FLORIDA ANTS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) MARK DEYRUP Archbold Biological Station, P.O. Box 2057, Lake Placid, FL 33862 ABSTRACT A list of ants of Florida published in 1989 is replaced to accommodate 49 additional species now known from Florida, and 34 name changes in species already on the 1989 list. Cur- rently, 218 species of ants are reliably reported from Florida. Key Words: exotic species, faunistics RESUMEN Se presenta una nueva lista de las hormigas de Florida para reemplazar una lista publicada en 1989. La nueva lista incluya 49 mas especies y 34 cambios de nomenclatura. Al presente, 218 especies de hormigas son sabidas a hallarse en Florida. In 1989 Deyrup et al. published a list of the nine exotic species that have been added to the ants of Florida. In the ensuing thirteen years list. Most of the added Florida records are either there has been considerable myrmecological ac- native species whose Florida populations have tivity, both survey work in Florida, and taxonomic been recently discovered, or native species that descriptions and revisions. Consequently, the have recently been described or are awaiting de- 1989 list is drastically out of date: there are 49 ad- scription. ditional species to be added to the list, 34 name The number of species listed below, 218, is the changes that apply to species already on the 1989 largest ant fauna known from any state in eastern list, and 4 species that have been removed from North America, and is likely to remain so, even af- the list because the records are probably based on ter other large states have received as much at- misidentifications. tention as Florida. The reasons for this lie in the These advances do not mean that there is no convergence of various faunal elements. There is need for further work in the inventory and taxon- a set of Antillean species, such as Leptothorax al- omy of Florida ants. Included in the list are a lardycei and L. torreyi in the southern Peninsula. number of species that are awaiting description There are many tropical exotics, including both by various specialists. The species epithets in the Old World species, such as Technomyrmex albipes entire genus Brachymyrmex are suspect, al- and Strumigenys emmae, and New World species, though it is clear that at least five species of Bra- such as Wasmannia auropunctata and chymyrmex occur in Florida. It is probable that Pseudomyrmex gracilis. There are southeastern there are additional species of ants still to be coastal plain species such as Camponotus socius found in Florida. This can be deduced from the and Paratrechina arenivaga. There are, mostly in fact that there are a number of species on the list north Florida, species probably derived from the that are known from only one or two collections, or southern Appalachians, such as Pyramica ros- from one or two sites; there are probably other trata and P. pulchella. There are species repre- equally rare species that nobody has been lucky senting western lineages, such as Pogonomyrmex enough to find. There is reason to suppose that ex- badius and Neivamyrmex texanus. All this diver- otic ants will continue to become established in sity, however, still cannot compare with that of Florida (Deyrup et al. 2000); even now there are southwestern states such as Arizona, where an al- likely to be some species of localized exotics that most intact, pre-ice age, dryland fauna (Madroter- have not yet been reported. On the other hand, tiary) is augmented at higher elevations by north there are four species of ants on the list that have temperate species. not been found for many years and may have been The following alphabetical list generally fol- extirpated. These are the native species Formica lows the nomenclature in Barry Bolton’s catalog subsericea and Solenopsis xyloni, and the exotic (1995), combined with the nomenclature in his re- species Myrmelachista ramulorum and Tetramor- vision of the Dacetini (2000). These two works are ium lanuginosum. currently the foundations of North American ant The 49 species that have been added to the list nomenclature. Numbers in parentheses following were overlooked before for various reasons. They a name in the list usually refer to variances from are not, fortunately, primarily exotics that have the nomenclature or from the lists of species in invaded Florida since 1989, although there are Bolton 1995 and 2000. These variances are ex- 44 Florida Entomologist 86(1) March 2003 plained in the section following the list. In cases lands Cos. Records in 1989 list under sayi Emery in which a name appearing in the 1989 list has apparently refer to this species. been changed and the changes are referenced in Camponotus floridanus (Buckley). Wide- one of the two works by Bolton mentioned above, spread. the 1989 usage is noted but the original source of Camponotus impressus (Roger). Widespread. the change in nomenclature may be omitted. Listed under Colobopsis in 1989 list. An asterisk (*) denotes a species that was ab- Camponotus nearcticus Emery. Widespread. sent from the 1989 list. Camponotus pennsylvanicus (DeGeer). North- Florida specimens of all but seven species are ernmost FL, including Panhandle. deposited in the collection of Archbold Biological Camponotus planatus Roger. South FL, north Station. into Hillsborough and Orange Cos. Introduced. Camponotus pylartes Wheeler.* North-central LIST OF FLORIDA ANTS Peninsula. Camponotus sexguttatus (Fabricius).* Dade Acanthomyops claviger (Roger).* Okaloosa Co. Co. Rare. Introduced. Rare. Camponotus snellingi Bolton. Widespread. Acanthomyops interjectus (Mayr).* Liberty Co. Records under C. pavidus Wheeler in 1989 list re- Rare. fer to this species. Amblyopone pallipes (Haldeman). Widespread. Camponotus socius Roger. Widespread, south Anochetus mayri Emery. Dade and Palm Beach into Broward Co. Cos. Introduced. Camponotus tortuganus Emery. South FL, Aphaenogaster ashmeadi (Emery). Widespread north into Volusia Co. in north FL, south into Highlands Co. Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel. Widespread. In- Aphaenogaster carolinensis Wheeler. North troduced. FL; distribution unclear: confounded with miami- Cardiocondyla nuda (Mayr). Widespread. In- ana. (1) troduced. Aphaenogaster flemingi M. R. Smith. Wide- Cardiocondyla venustula Wheeler. Wide- spread. spread. Introduced. Aphaenogaster floridana M. R. Smith. Wide- Cardiocondyla wroughtonii (Forel). Wide- spread in north FL, south into Highlands Co. spread in peninsular FL. Introduced. Aphaenogaster fulva Roger. Widespread in Cardiocondyla sp.* Widespread in peninsular north FL, south into Orange and Volusia Cos. FL. Introduced. (3) Aphaenogaster lamellidens Mayr. Widespread Cephalotes varians (F.Smith). Dade and Mon- in north FL, south into Highlands and St. Lucie roe Cos. (4) Cos. Crematogaster agnita Wheeler.* Monroe Co. Aphaenogaster mariae Forel. Liberty Co. Rare. Rare. Introduced. Aphaenogaster miamiana Wheeler.* South FL; Crematogaster ashmeadi Mayr. Widespread. distribution unclear: confounded with carolinen- Crematogaster atkinsoni Wheeler. Widespread. sis. Crematogaster cerasi (Fitch). Widespread in Aphaenogaster tennesseensis (Mayr). North- north FL, south into Highlands Co. ernmost counties of peninsular Florida. Crematogaster lineolata (Say). Widespread in Aphaenogaster treatae Forel. Widespread. north FL, south into Hernando and Sumter Cos. Aphaenogaster umphreyi Deyrup & Davis.* Crematogaster minutissima Mayr. Wide- Scattered sites in north FL, south into Highlands spread. Co. (2). Crematogaster missuriensis Emery.* Panhan- Brachymyrmex brevicornis Emery?* (Genus in dle. (5) disarray). Columbia Co. Rare. Introduced. Crematogaster pilosa Emery. Widespread. Brachymyrmex depilis Emery? (Genus in dis- Crematogaster vermiculata Emery. Scattered array). Widespread. sites in north FL, south into Hillsborough Co. Brachymyrmex minutus Forel?* (Genus in dis- Crematogaster sp. A (pine species).* Wide- array). Dade and Monroe Cos. Introduced. spread in north and central FL, south into Lee Brachymyrmex musculus Forel?* (Genus in and Palm Beach Cos. disarray). Widespread. Introduced. Crematogaster sp. B (large species in man- Brachymyrmex obscurior Forel? (Genus in dis- groves).* Monroe Co. Rare. array). Widespread. Cryptopone gilva (Roger). Widespread in north Camponotus caryae (Fitch). Liberty Co. Rare. FL, south into Highlands Co. Camponotus castaneus (Latreille). Wide- Cyphomyrmex minutus Mayr. Widespread in spread. south FL, north into Hillsborough and Volusia Camponotus decipiens Emery. Widespread. Cos. Camponotus discolor (Buckley).* Scattered Cyphomyrmex rimosus (Spinola). Widespread. sites in peninsular Florida, Alachua into High- Introduced. Deyrup: List of Florida Ants 45 Discothyrea testacea Roger. Widespread. Leptothorax schaumii Roger. North FL, south Dolichoderus mariae Forel.* Leon Co. Rare. into Highlands Co. Dolichoderus pustulatus Mayr.* Scattered Leptothorax smithi Baroni Urbani. Scattered sites throughout FL. Records in 1989 list under D. sites in north FL, south into Highlands Co. plagiatus Mayr refer to this species. Records under L. wheeleri in 1989 list refer to this Dorymyrmex bossutus (Trager).* Widespread species. in peninsular FL, west into Leon Co. (6) Leptothorax texanus Wheeler. Widespread. (7) Dorymyrmex bureni (Trager).* Widespread. Leptothorax torrei (Aguayo). Dade, Monroe, Records in 1989 list under Conomyrma insana Martin Cos. Listed under Macromischa in 1989 (Buckley) refer to this species. (6) list. Dorymyrmex elegans (Trager).* Central penin- Leptothorax
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