Ants of Cheraw State Park and Carolina Sandhillls NWR in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 8-13 July 2013 (species list)
Joe MacGown and JoVonn G. Hill
The following is a list of ants collected during the 2013 William H. Cross Expedition in Cheraw State Park and Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Chesterfield County, South Carolina by Joe A. MacGown, JoVonn G. Hill, and other participants of the 2013 William H. Cross Expedition from 8-13 July 2013. For more information about this Cross Expedition, go to the 2013 Cross Expedition Log.
We collected 55 species of ants, which included three new state records:Lasius murphyi, Pheidole floridana, and Ponera exotica. We collected four introduced species including Nylanderia vividula, Brachyponera chinensis (Asian needle ant), Solenopsis invicta (red imported fire ant), and Strumigenys membranifera. Of these, the Asian needle ants and the red imported fire ants were by far the most abundant.
The species list presented below is arranged alphabetically. Click on a species name for more info. New state records are indicated with an asterisk (*).
| Aphaenogaster ashmeadi (Emery) | Cheraw State Park |
| Aphaenogaster carolinensis Wheeler | Cheraw State Park |
| Aphaenogaster floridana M.R. Smith | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Aphaenogaster treatae Wheeler | Cheraw State Park |
| Brachymyrmex depilis Emery | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Brachyponera chinensis (Emery) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Camponotus castaneus (Latreille) | Cheraw State Park |
| Camponotus chromaiodes Bolton | Cheraw State Park |
| Camponotus nearcticus Emery | Cheraw State Park |
| Camponotus pennsylvanicus (DeGeer) | Cheraw State Park |
| Camponotus socius Roger | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Colobopsis impressa Roger | Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Colobopsis obliqua (Smith) | Cheraw State Park |
| Crematogaster ashmeadi Mayr | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Crematogaster minutissima Mayr | Cheraw State Park |
| Crematogaster pilosa Emery | Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Dolichoderus pustulatus Mayr | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Dorymyrmex bureni (Trager) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Dorymyrmex smithi Cole | Cheraw State Park |
| Forelius pruinosus (Roger) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Formica dolosa Buren | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Formica pallidefulva Latreille | Cheraw State Park |
| Formica subintegra Wheeler | Cheraw State Park |
| Formica subsericea Say | Cheraw State Park |
| Hypoponera opacior (Forel) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Lasius americanus Emery | Cheraw State Park |
| *Lasius murphyi (Forel) | Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Myrmecina americana Emery | Cheraw State Park |
| Neivamyrmex carolinensis (Emery) | Cheraw State Park |
| Nylanderia faisonensis (Forel) | Cheraw State Park |
| Nylanderia parvula (Mayr) | Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Nylanderia vividula (Nylander) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Nylanderia wojciki (Trager)* | Cheraw State Park |
| Pheidole bicarinata Mayr | Cheraw State Park |
| Pheidole crassicornis Emery | Cheraw State Park, |
| Pheidole dentata Mayr | Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Pheidole dentigula Smith | Cheraw State Park |
| *Pheidolebilimeki Mayr | Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Pogonomyrmex badius (Latreille) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| *Ponera exotica Smith | Cheraw State Park |
| Proceratium pergandei (Emery) | Cheraw State Park |
| Pseudomyrmex ejectus (Smith) | Cheraw State Park |
| Pseudomyrmex pallidus (F. Smith) | Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Solenopsis carolinensis Forel | Cheraw State Park |
| Solenopsis invicta Buren | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Solenopsis molesta (Say) | Cheraw State Park |
| Solenopsis pergandei Forel | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Solenopsis picta Emery | Cheraw State Park |
| Strumigenys bunki (Brown) | Cheraw State Park |
| Strumigenys louisianae Roger | Cheraw State Park |
| Strumigenys membranifera Emery | Cheraw State Park |
| Strumigenys ornata Mayr | Cheraw State Park |
| Tapinoma sessile (Say) | Cheraw State Park |
| Temnothorax curvispinosus (Mayr ) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
| Temnothorax pergandei (Emery) | Cheraw State Park, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge |
