Myrmecocystus mendax

Distribution
This taxon was described from U.S.A.

Nomenclature

 *  mendax. Myrmecocystus melliger subsp. mendax Wheeler, W.M. 1908d: 351, fig. 4 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. Raised to species: Creighton, 1950a: 445. Senior synonym of orbiceps: Snelling, R.R. 1976: 35.
 * orbiceps. Myrmecocystus melliger subsp. orbiceps Wheeler, W.M. 1908d: 349, fig. 3 (w.q.) U.S.A. Junior synonym of melliger: Creighton & Crandall, 1954: 2; of placodops: Snelling, R.R. 1969a: 6; of mendax: Snelling, R.R. 1976: 35.