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Species Forelius pruinosus

Passion Miner - Forelius pruinosus Tiny red-brown ants without apparent Very small ants - Forelius pruinosus Forelius 2 - Forelius pruinosus Dolichoderinae - Forelius pruinosus Forelius pruinosus? - Forelius pruinosus - male - female Forelius pruinosus Forelius pruinosus nest entrance - Forelius pruinosus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)
Family Formicidae (Ants)
Subfamily Dolichoderinae (Odorous Ants)
Tribe Leptomyrmecini
Genus Forelius
Species pruinosus (Forelius pruinosus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Syns: Tapinoma pruinosum Roger 1863; Iridomyrmex pruinosus (Roger)
Explanation of Names
Forelius pruinosus (Roger, 1863)
Range
widely dist: ME-ID to S. America; W. Indies(1)
Remarks
A common ant of sandy and other dryish, open, sparsely vegetated areas across the southern US and southward. --James Trager
Print References
Warter S.L., Moser J.C., Blum M.S. (1962) Some correlations between the foraging behavior of common nighthawks, Cbordeiles minor (Forester), and the swarming behavior of two species of ants, Atta texana (Buckley) and Iridomyrmex pruinosis (Roger). Sciences 25: 42-46.
Internet References
Fact sheet (Lubertazzi & Alpert 2010)