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Species Camponotus floridanus - Florida Carpenter Ant

Aphid Farming?? - Camponotus floridanus Ant - ? - Camponotus floridanus - female Ant - Camponotus floridanus Grub? - Camponotus floridanus Possibly Camponotus? - Camponotus floridanus Camponotus floridanus Florida carpenter ant - Camponotus floridanus antoncowpea - Camponotus floridanus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)
Family Formicidae (Ants)
Subfamily Formicinae
Tribe Camponotini
Genus Camponotus (Carpenter Ants)
No Taxon (Subgenus Myrmothrix)
Species floridanus (Florida Carpenter Ant)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formica floridana Buckley 1866
Camponotus abdominalis floridanus
Range
Southeast coastal plain of USA; also Central and South America
See Also
Profuse erect hairs throughout the body distinguish this species from the otherwise very similar C. socius. [comment by Richard Vernier]
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