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Single record from south-central Ohio. Counties:
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="213">This is a synanthropic species with pronounced tolerance to disturbed habitats.</paragraph>
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provide the most relevant and up to date treatment of this species and its close relatives. This species can be easily confused with members of the
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clade (
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Emery, 1896;
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Mayr, 1870) as well as with members of the
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complex (
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;
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). In the southeastern United States, where outdoor colonies of this species can be found, it has often been misidentified as
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Emery, 1895. According to
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, the latter often results from the misapplication of the name
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="213">Pheidole floridana</emphasis>
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to collections of North American
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="213">Pheidole bilimeki</emphasis>
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. Identification of this species is difficult but the following characteristics may be useful in separating it from other closely related species: antennal scapes relatively short, head margin somewhat flattened posteriorly, anterior half of first gastral tergite foveolate and opaque, body color brown and only occasionally yellow-brown. In addition, it can be separated from the closely related
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by its preference for open, disturbed habitats (see
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;
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for additional information).
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According to
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, this is an abundant species of open areas regularly found in recently, or frequently, disturbed habitats in its native range. Although it is often associated with anthropogenically altered areas and can be common along roadsides, it is also an abundant house pest. This ant is highly adaptable in its nest site preferences with nests located in dead rotten wood (including fence posts) and under stones. In Costa Rica
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have observed this species in a variety of forested lowland and montane habitats. According to
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; as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="213">Pheidole floridana</emphasis>
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) this species nests in soil, leaf-litter, and rotten wood in both xeric and mesic woodland habitats with colonies being monogynous and sometimes polydomous. In his account of the biology of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="213">Pheidole bilimeki</emphasis>
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(as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="213">Pheidole anastasii</emphasis>
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) in Florida
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reports that this ant most often nests under the bark at the base, or along the roots, of pines, and only rarely in the soil. The observed colonies
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monogynous and contained 600 workers.
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also reports that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="214">Pheidole bilimeki</emphasis>
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feeds on seeds, fruits, dead insects, and also preys on small live arthropods.
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This species has a history of human-mediated dispersal, which is not surprising given its abundance and synanthropic habitat preferences. In northern regions, both in North America and in Europe, this species occasionally is found in greenhouses, and other heated buildings (
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).
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