Removing existing common names that are deemed confusing

[Arman]

@insectobserver123

This would be problematic IMO because as far as I know neither L. claviger nor L. interjectus is way more common than the other, so calling one the “common” one is misleading. Maybe just replace “yellow” with “citronella” for clarity and call it “smaller citronella ant” and L. interjectus “larger citronella ant”? I also am not aware of the citronella ants having the same misidentification problem as Monomorium, so I question the necessity of not just using the official common names, although I do think those Lasius official names are silly

Well if you look at observations, L. claviger is about 3x more observed than interjectus (although low-quality worker observations are hard to go past subgenus on), and encompasses most of the range of most Acanthomyops observations overall. If you look at the queen observations under the Gyne(s) present? observation field, in which identification is much more consistent, you can see that claviger is about 5x more seen than interjectus. I just think that “smaller yellow ant” has a similar problem to “little black ant” in that people might type in “yellow ant,” although certainly to a lesser extent. Unfortunately Ants of Florida’s names for the species are a bit ridiculous, so I’m against using those (“Hairy Yellow Underground Ant” doesn’t work much better…), and I don’t know of any other established alternatives.