Strumigenys pulchella Emery, 1895

Distribution. Canada to USA; in eastern USA from Florida to New York and west to Iowa; in western USA occurs in Kansas, and Texas.

Comments. Strumigenys pulchella is a wide-ranging eastern to midwestern species often found nesting in hardwood stumps and rotting fallen branches. In Kansas , Dubois (1985) reports a colony collected in rotten wood in a deciduous forest. The Field Museum houses a specimen from North Dakota (FMHD 0000 050 802), but this specimen’s collection data were digitized erroneously. This specimen was collected by H. Dybas in 1950 near Station Lake, Porter County, Indiana . There are no validated records of Strumigenys in North Dakota .

Material examined: USA, Texas, Lamar Co., Camp Maxey, Osmuda bog, 33.848745, -95.538077, 165 m, 25 Sep 2003, malaise, 1 alate queen, coll. S.F. Godwin, SFASU 84, (casent0799701) [DBBC] .