Category:Temnothorax andersoni group

The difficulty inherent in identifying small North American Temnothorax led Mackay (2000) to group individual species into complexes. The groupings were admittedly hard to define in some cases but do serve as a useful aid in trying to key out workers to species.

MacKay, W. P. 2000. A review of the New World ants of the subgenus Myrafant, (Genus Leptothorax) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology. 36:265-444.