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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 » Camponotini » Carpenter Ants (Camponotus) » Subgenus Myrmentoma (Camponotus Subgenus Myrmentoma) » Camponotus nearcticus
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Carpenter Ants - Camponotus nearcticus - female
Copyright © 2009 Sam Houston

Carpenter Ants - Camponotus nearcticus - Female
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
December 13, 2009
Size: 4mm (5/32")

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Carpenter Ants - Camponotus nearcticus - female Carpenter Ants - Camponotus nearcticus - female
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Contributed by Sam Houston on 14 December, 2009 - 1:33pm
Last updated 27 July, 2010 - 3:43pm

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Myrmentoma.
… James C. Trager, 27 July, 2010 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Carpenter Ants.
… Sam Houston, 11 April, 2010 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

move?
This could probably be moved to the Myrmentoma page at least.
… Ben Coulter, 11 April, 2010 - 10:33am login or register to post comments

This is one of the smaller ca
This is one of the smaller carpenter ants, subgenus Myrmentoma. Looks like C. nearcticus. It is variable in color pattern, but is the only one in our region that has the contrastingly lighter pronotum and all-dark gaster of these individuals. The extensive redness of this sample and others like it long led to the notion that this ant is conspecific with C. decipiens, but this is C. nearcticus.

As in this image and typical of many in this genus, larvae diapause in first instar through the winter.
… James C. Trager, 26 March, 2010 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 16 December, 2009 - 12:08pm login or register to post comments

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