Formica microphthalma

Distribution
California and western Nevada.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Nearctic Region: United States.

Biology
Nevada, Wheeler and Wheeler (1986) - Our 7 records represent 3 localities near Lake Tahoe. All were in the Coniferous Forest Biome. One nest was under a stone; another was exposed and surmounted by a 23-cm crater around a 25-mm entrance.

Nomenclature

 *  microphthalma. Formica microphthalma Francoeur, 1973: 201, figs. 344-359 (w.m.) U.S.A.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Francoeur. A. 1973. Revision taxonomique des especes nearctiques du group fusca, genre Formica. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique du Quebec 3: 1-316.
 * Johnson R. Personnal Database. Accessed on February 5th 2014 at http://www.asu.edu/clas/sirgtools/resources.htm
 * Wheeler G. C., and J. Wheeler. 1986. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp.
 * Wheeler, G.C. and J. Wheeler. 1978. Mountain ants of Nevada. Great Basin Naturalist 35(4):379-396