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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Formicinae » Lasiini » Citronella Ants (Lasius) » Subgenus Acanthomyops (Lasius Subgenus Acanthomyops) » Lasius interjectus
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Yellow Ants - Lasius interjectus
Copyright © 2017 Mark H Brown

Yellow Ants - Lasius interjectus
Coralville Reservoir, Johnson County, Iowa, USA
March 19, 2017
Size: 4 mm

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Contributed by Mark H Brown on 19 March, 2017 - 9:24pm
Last updated 24 March, 2017 - 6:43am

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Sparse pilosity and large size (4mm too big for other spp of citronella ants) point to L. interjectus.
… James C. Trager, 24 March, 2017 - 6:43am login or register to post comments

Citronella ant
Lasius... is it interjectus or claviger? Since worker distinction is largely on size, and 4mm could be either?
… Seth Burgess, 22 March, 2017 - 4:59pm login or register to post comments

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