Manica hunteri

Distribution
This taxon was described from the United States (California, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah. It is also found in Canada (British Colombia, Alberta).

Nomenclature

 * aldrichi. Myrmica (Oreomyrma) aldrichi Wheeler, W.M. 1914d: 120, fig. 1 (w.) U.S.A. Combination in Myrmica (Neomyrma): Wheeler, W.M. 1917a: 507; in M. (Manica): Emery, 1921f: 42; in Manica: Weber, 1947: 440; Creighton, 1950a: 108. Junior synonym of hunteri: Cole, 1956g: 262.
 *  hunteri. Myrmica (Oreomyrma) hunteri Wheeler, W.M. 1914d: 121, fig. 1 (w.) U.S.A. Cole, 1957c: 212 (m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1972b: 235 (l.). Combination in Myrmica (Neomyrma): Wheeler, W.M. 1917a: 507; in M. (Manica): Emery, 1921f: 43; in Manica: Weber, 1947: 440; Creighton, 1950a: 109. Senior synonym of aldrichi: Cole, 1956g: 262.

Description
Worker: Length 4-6 mm.

Body and appendages brownish red or ferruginous, with a large, black, subtriangular spot on the vertex and a band of the same color across the posterior portion of the first gastric segment. Frontal area, posterior clypeal suture, antennal clubs and dental border of mandibles more or less infuscated. Upper surface of head with coarse, scattered punctures in addition to the rugae. Smooth areas on the head, thorax and pedicel. Hairs pale yellow. Anterior clypeal border entire. Base of propodeum somewhat flattened, anteroventral protuberance of postpetiole broadly rounded.

Described from a dozen specimens taken by Dr. S.J. Hunter from a couple of nests on the slopes of two mountains on the Madison River, nearly opposite the mouth of Beaver Creek, Montana, at an altitude of about 7,500 feet. The nests were in shaley earth and apparently of the crater type.
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