Araeoschizus airmeti

Diagnosis
Group I: The armatus Horn (1870) complex: Femora toothed. Prothorax with longitudinal groove. Elytral interspaces with squamules

Similar to Araeoschizus armatus Horn, from which it differs by the broader humeral area, by the broad prothorax and by the parallel-sided body. Differs from Araeoschizus duplicatus Casey in that the latter has a more rounded prothorax and larger spines on all femora. Reddish-brown ; robust.

Description
Type Locality: Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho. Collected in April, 1944 by Elliot LeRoy Jack Airmet, a student of Entomology at this institution, and in whose honor the species is named. One other specimen of the series was collected in the Juniper Hills near Rexburg, Idaho in May, 1919, by Ernest Quayle. The type and thirteen paratypes in the entomological collections at Brigham Young University.

Distribution
IDAHO: (type) Canyon, Bonneville, Elmore, Cassia, Owyhee in association with Pogonomyrmex owyheei; Butte, Jerome and Fremont Counties. - OREGON: Malheur and Harney Counties. - NEVADA: Humboldt and Pershing Counties found in association with Pogonomyrmex sp., Pheidole sp., Pheidole creightoni, P. oregonica, Vermanessor lobognatus and V lariversi.

Biology
Host ants: Pheidole oregonica, Veromessor lariversi, Pogonomyrmex salinus