Temnothorax smithi

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Identification
Mackay (2000) "This is a large (total length over 3mm), concolorous reddish-brown species in which the head is very roughly sculptured with coarse rugae and roughened intrarugal spaces, that are only slightly shiny. The antenna has 11 segments. The propodeal spines are very well developed, their length is nearly equal to the distance between the tips. The subpetiolar process is developed, but not large. The node of the petiole is truncate in profile.

Abundance
xxxxx Only known from a few collections. xxxxx

Biology
xxxxx At present we known nothing beyond the type information for Temnothorax xxxxxxxx. This ant was once a member of the now synonymized subgenus Myrafant and we can speculate that the biology of this species will be found to be like many other similar forms from North America:

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Original Combination
''Leptothorax smithi" Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 557

Unless otherwise noted the taxonomic information that follows is from the same publication as the original combination.