Javascript Disabled Detected

You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.

Welcome to Formiculture.com!

This is a website for anyone interested in Myrmecology and all aspects of finding, keeping, and studying ants. The site and forum are free to use. Register now to gain access to all of our features. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to create topics, post replies to existing threads, give reputation points to your fellow members, get your own private messenger, post status updates, manage your profile and so much more. If you already have an account, login here - otherwise create an account for free today!

Are Pheidole rhea allowed in california? I live in the southernmost part of california.

Started By ANTSANDMORE11 , May 20 2025 3:13 PM

Please log in to reply

5 replies to this topic

#1 Offline ANTSANDMORE11 - Posted May 20 2025 - 3:13 PM

Advanced Member

Members
32 posts

Are Pheidole rhea allowed in california? I live in the southernmost part of california.

I have been told by OwlWhoLikesAnts that Pheidole rhea are in california. Is this true?

#2 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 20 2025 - 3:20 PM

Advanced Member

Members
2,562 posts

LocationSioux Falls, South Dakota

Are Pheidole rhea allowed in california? I live in the southernmost part of california.

I have been told by OwlWhoLikesAnts that Pheidole rhea are in california. Is this true?

Yes they are, you can see here: https://www.antwiki....i/Pheidole_rhea

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

My Ant Shop Here I have PPQ-526 permits to ship ants nationwide

Attention Ant-Keepers in South Dakota! Join the SoDak(Society Of Dakotan Ant Keepers)

My Formica sp. Journal

My Lasius sp. Journal

My Micro Ants Journal

#3 Offline ReignofRage - Posted May 20 2025 - 3:34 PM

Advanced Member

Members
814 posts

LocationCalif.

Pheidole rhea is not in California. Anyone who actually looks at the record for the Antmaps record will soon figure out the record is from the Gulf of California, Mexico. The record is based on Boulton & Ward, 2002. which is a chapter titled, "Checklist of the ants of the Gulf of California Islands," in "A New island Biogeography of the Sea of Cortes," of the Oxford University Press. This species has never been recorded from California and doesn't range close enough for them to even plausibly occur here. In addition, there is a severe lack of suitable habitat and weather to support the species.

Antmaps.org is known to have numerous erroneous records, do not blindly trust it.

gcsnelling, Ants_Dakota, bmb1bee and 3 others like this

Ant Shop | Journals | Scanned Literature

#4 Offline ANTSANDMORE11 - Posted May 20 2025 - 4:29 PM

Advanced Member

Members
32 posts

Are there any other big headed ant species native to california?

#5 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 20 2025 - 5:34 PM

Advanced Member

Members
4,347 posts

LocationSioux Falls, South Dakota

Are there any other big headed ant species native to california?

Pheidole barbata

Pheidole bicarinata

Pheidole californica

Pheidole cerebrosior

Pheidole clementensis

Pheidole clydei

Pheidole creightoni

Pheidole desertorum

Pheidole gilvescens

Pheidole hyatti

Pheidole micula

Pheidole paiute

Pheidole pilifera

Pheidole psammophila

Pheidole rugulosa

Pheidole sciophila

Pheidole soritis

Pheidole vistana

Pheidole xerophila

Pheidole yaqui

So yes.

Edited by RushmoreAnts, May 20 2025 - 5:34 PM.

Ants_Dakota, bmb1bee and AntsGodzilla like this

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica pallidefulva, argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis