1380 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



minutissima missouriensis Emery. Nebr., Mo., Tex., Colo., N. Mex. 



Creniatogaster victima missuriensis (!) Emery, 1895. Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. System. 8:287. 



Taxonomy: Wheeler and Wheeler, 1952. Wash. Acad. Sci., Jour. 42:260-261 (larva). 



Biology: Gregg, 1963. Ants of Colo., pp. 363-364. 

 minutissima smithi Creighton. Ariz. (Huachuca Mtns.). 



Creniatogaster (Orthocrema) minutissima thomcica Creighton, 1939. Psyche 46:138. 5. 



Preocc. by Santschi, 1921. 

 Creniatogaster {Orthocrema) minutissima smithi Creighton, 1950. Harvard Univ., Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., Bui. 104:205. N. name. 

 mormonum Emery. Utah, Idaho, e. Oreg. (?), Nev., Calif.; Mexico. Ecology: Most common in 

 the Great Basin; nests under rocks. 

 Creniatogaster lineolata coarctata var. mormonum Emery, 1895. Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. 

 System. 8:284. $ . 



Taxonomy: Wheeler, 1908. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 24:482 (each caste). 



Biology: Cole, 1942. Amer. Midland Nat. 28:363. —Wheeler and Wheeler, 1973. Ants of Deep 

 Canyon, pp. 88-89. 

 mutans Buren. Nev., Calif. Ecology: The only North American species of this genus suspected 

 of being parasitic. 

 Creniatogaster mutans Buren, 1968. Ga. Ent. Soc., Jour. 3:115. 5, 9. 

 navajoa Buren. N. Mex., Ariz, in the Colorado Plateau region. Ecology: Found under rocks and 

 at bases of various plants. 

 Creniatogaster navajoa Buren, 1968. Ga. Ent. Soc., Jour. 3:102. 5,9. 

 noctuma Buren. S. Utah, n. Ariz. 



Creniatogaster noctuma Buren, 1968. Ga. Ent. Soc., Joiu". 3:112. 9, 6, possible 5. 

 opaca Mayr. Ariz. (Tumacacori Mts., under stones among oaks, 3900 ft.); Mexico. Only a single 

 Arizona record for the U. S. 

 Creniatogaster opaca Mayr, 1870. Zool.-Bot. (Jesell. Wien, Verh. 20:989. 9 . 

 opuntiae Buren. N. Mex., s. Ariz. Ecology: Foimd principally at bases of and foraging on 

 Opuntia fulgida but also at bases of various other plants. 

 Creniatogaster opuntiae Buren, 1968. Ga. Ent. Soc., Jour. 3:120. 5. 

 pilosa Emery. N. J. s. to Ga. Ecology: Often nests in logs and fallen branches in marshy 

 situations. 

 Creniatogaster lineolata pilosa Emery, 1895. Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. System. 8:285. 5 . 

 Creniatogaster lineolata subpilosa Wheeler, 1913. Psyche 20:115. Syn. uncertain. Nomen 



nudum. 

 Creniatogaster (Acrocoelia) creightoni Wheeler, 1933. Psyche 40:86. 9 . 



Taxonomy: Wheeler, 1933. Psyche 40:85. 



Biology: Wheeler, 1905. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 21:379. —Wheeler, 1906. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Bui. 22:6-7. 

 punctulata Emery. Va. s. to Fla., w. to Colo., Ariz.; Mexico. Ecology: Abundant in southern 

 Great Plains region where they nest in the ground and tend aphids and coccids. 

 Creniatogaster punctulata Emery, 1895. Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. System. 8:287. 9 . 

 Creniatogaster lineolata lineolata var. subopaca Emery, 1895. Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. System. 



8:283. 5, 9, cJ. 

 Creniatogaster (Acrocoelia) opaca var. texana Santschi, 1929. Wien Ent. Ztg. 46:91. 5. 



Taxonomy: Wheeler, 1908. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 24:479-480. 



Biology: Smith, 1927. Ent. News 38:310. —Gregg, 1963. Ants of Colo., pp. 361-362, 364. 

 rifelna Buren. S. Tex.;Mexico. Ecology: Arboreal, found nesting in live oaks and other trees. 

 Creniatogaster rifelna Buren, 1968. Ga. Ent. Soc., Jour. 3:96. 5, 9, 6. 



