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<mods:title>Exotic ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ohio</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Ivanov, Kaloyan</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Department of Recent Invertebrates, Virginia Museum of Natural History, 21 Starling Ave., Martinsville, VA 24112, USA</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:nameIdentifier type="email">kal.ivanov@vmnh.virginia.gov</mods:nameIdentifier>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.51.9135</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="127902171" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:BDD795BF34F49A22803D6D1861122DD7" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BDD795BF34F49A22803D6D1861122DD7" lastPageNumber="217" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">
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<taxonomicName LSID="BDD795BF-34F4-9A22-803D-6D1861122DD7" authority="(Emery, 1894)" authorityName="Emery" authorityYear="1894" baseAuthorityName="Emery" baseAuthorityYear="1894" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera ragusai" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ragusai">Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1894)</taxonomicName>
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<subSubSection pageId="14" pageNumber="217" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Distribution in Ohio.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">
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Southern Ohio. Counties:
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Jackson</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Wesson, LG" journalOrPublisher="The American Midland Naturalist" pageId="22" pageNumber="225" pagination="89 - 103" publicationUrl="10.2307/2421055" refId="B64" refString="Wesson, LG, Wesson, RG, 1940. A collection of ants from southcentral Ohio. The American Midland Naturalist 24: 89 - 103, DOI: 10.2307/2421055" title="A collection of ants from southcentral Ohio." url="10.2307/2421055" volume="24" year="1940">Wesson and Wesson 1940</bibRefCitation>
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, as
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1939" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ponera oblongiceps" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oblongiceps">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Ponera oblongiceps</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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Smith, M.R., 1939), (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Distribution of Cardiocondyla obscurior (5), Monomorium pharaonis (6), Pheidole bilimeki (7), Tetramorium atratulum (8), and Hypoponera ragusai (9) in Ohio." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.51.9135.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/100885" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">3</figureCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Where found/Habitat.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">
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The following quote from
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<bibRefCitation author="Wesson, LG" journalOrPublisher="The American Midland Naturalist" pageId="22" pageNumber="225" pagination="89 - 103" publicationUrl="10.2307/2421055" refId="B64" refString="Wesson, LG, Wesson, RG, 1940. A collection of ants from southcentral Ohio. The American Midland Naturalist 24: 89 - 103, DOI: 10.2307/2421055" title="A collection of ants from southcentral Ohio." url="10.2307/2421055" volume="24" year="1940">Wesson and Wesson (1940)</bibRefCitation>
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summarizes all the information we have for the single record of this species in Ohio - "A few workers of this species were found under a stone in partial shade, on moist but well drained soil, in Jackson."
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="14" pageNumber="217" type="origin">
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Origin.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">
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Old World, with assumed African origin. The current confirmed distribution includes Europe, Africa and India (
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<bibRefCitation author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="18" pageNumber="221" pagination="1 - 118" refId="B3" refString="Bolton, B, Fisher, B, 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843: 1 - 118" title="Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." volume="2843" year="2011">Bolton and Fisher 2011</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="14" pageNumber="217" type="natural history">
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Natural history.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="217">
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The genus
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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includes small cryptic ants with global distribution, although the highest diversity of the group occurs in the tropics.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Emery" baseAuthorityYear="1894" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera ragusai" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ragusai">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera ragusai</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is a species with known tramping ability widespread in most parts of the world (
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<bibRefCitation author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="18" pageNumber="221" pagination="1 - 118" refId="B3" refString="Bolton, B, Fisher, B, 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843: 1 - 118" title="Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." volume="2843" year="2011">Bolton and Fisher 2011</bibRefCitation>
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). This species can be easily separated from most other North American
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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by its smooth and shiny mesopleuron which lack punctures; and from the closely related
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Roger" baseAuthorityYear="1859" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera punctatissima" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctatissima">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera punctatissima</emphasis>
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(Roger, 1859) by its smaller body size, and the lower and relatively longer petiolar node.
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The success of this ant as a tramp species is attributed to the presence of unusual ergatoid males which remain in their natal nest where they mate with virgin queens (
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<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, RW" journalOrPublisher="Pacific Insects Monographs" pageId="21" pageNumber="224" pagination="1 - 112" refId="B55" refString="Taylor, RW, 1967. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 13: 1 - 112" title="A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." volume="13" year="1967">Taylor 1967</bibRefCitation>
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). These ants are predators of small soil arthropods with nests usually located in soil, leaf-litter or rotting wood (
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<bibRefCitation author="Fisher, BL" journalOrPublisher="University of California Press, Berkeley" pageId="19" pageNumber="222" pagination="1 - 216" refId="B20" refString="Fisher, BL, Cover, SP, 2007. Ants of North America: a guide to genera. University of California Press, Berkeley: 1 - 216" title="Ants of North America: a guide to genera" year="2007">Fisher and Cover 2007</bibRefCitation>
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). This species was also found nesting under rocks and guano deposits inside caves in the Iberian Peninsula (
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<bibRefCitation author="Tinaut, A" journalOrPublisher="Graellsia" pageId="21" pageNumber="224" pagination="3 - 8" publicationUrl="10.3989/graellsia.2001.v57.i1.290" refId="B56" refString="Tinaut, A, 2001. Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1895) A cevrnicolous ant new for the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Graellsia 57: 3 - 8, DOI: 10.3989/graellsia.2001.v57.i1.290" title="Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1895) A cevrnicolous ant new for the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)." url="10.3989/graellsia.2001.v57.i1.290" volume="57" year="2001">Tinaut 2001</bibRefCitation>
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). Workers of this relatively nondescript small ant are rarely collected due to their subterranean habits.
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This species often has been refferred to as
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1895" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera gleadowi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gleadowi">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera gleadowi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(Emery, 1895) in the literature (including
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<bibRefCitation author="Coovert, GA" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey" pageId="19" pageNumber="222" pagination="1 - 202" refId="B13" refString="Coovert, GA, 2005. The ants of Ohio (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey 15: 1 - 202" title="The ants of Ohio (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." volume="15" year="2005">Coovert 2005</bibRefCitation>
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), and often has been misidentified as the closely related
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Roger" baseAuthorityYear="1859" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera punctatissima" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctatissima">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera punctatissima</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="18" pageNumber="221" pagination="1 - 118" refId="B3" refString="Bolton, B, Fisher, B, 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843: 1 - 118" title="Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." volume="2843" year="2011">Bolton and Fisher 2011</bibRefCitation>
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). It is likely that this species shares natural history with
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Roger" baseAuthorityYear="1859" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera punctatissima" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctatissima">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera punctatissima</emphasis>
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, which is often found in association with disturbed habitats, in addition to buildings in colder climates. Generaly neither
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Emery" baseAuthorityYear="1894" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Hypoponera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypoponera ragusai" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="217" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ragusai">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="217">Hypoponera ragusai</emphasis>
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, or any of its synonyms, have been reported as nuisance species in their introduced ranges.
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