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Re: specimens for revision of Polyergus
by James C. Trager on Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:55 pm
Hello Joe:
I will be interested to see your Polyergus samples and associated Formica, which latter I can also ID, as host associations are a part of my study.
It may be of interest to you to know that the type series of Polyergus breviceps umbratus are from the Santa Cruz area (Brookdale). It would be great if you were able next season to acquire fresh material, with host workers, from the area. I suspect the ones you have are of the umbratus sort. Another taxon, P. b. laeviceps was described from Mt. Tamalpais, a bit north of you. A more distinctive population that uses F. moki as host also occurs in California, though this may be more southern one. Samples from any of these populations will be of interest.
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I will be interested to see your Polyergus samples and associated Formica, which latter I can also ID, as host associations are a part of my study.
It may be of interest to you to know that the type series of Polyergus breviceps umbratus are from the Santa Cruz area (Brookdale). It would be great if you were able next season to acquire fresh material, with host workers, from the area. I suspect the ones you have are of the umbratus sort. Another taxon, P. b. laeviceps was described from Mt. Tamalpais, a bit north of you. A more distinctive population that uses F. moki as host also occurs in California, though this may be more southern one. Samples from any of these populations will be of interest.
We can exchange mailing info by private messages.
James C. Trager- Number of posts: 28
Location: Missouri, USA
Registration date: 2008-02-25 
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