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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)
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small yellow ants - Lasius
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

small yellow ants - Lasius
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
April 2, 2006
Size: 3mm
These aren't Citronella Ants, there was no odor when one got squished.
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Contributed by tom murray on 2 April, 2006 - 9:44pm
Last updated 18 October, 2008 - 8:14am

Moved
Moved from Citronella Ants, Lemon Ants.
… John R. Maxwell, 18 October, 2008 - 8:14am login or register to post comments

One must guess...
That not all species have the Citronella flavor, because all morphological criteria perfectly match: these workers are typical Acanthomyops sp. (Sometimes treated as a mere subgenus of Lasius).
… Richard Vernier, 3 April, 2006 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

 
different species of Acanthomyops
There was a colony of larger Acanthomyops nearby that had the citronella odor, so I mistakenly thought they were a different genus.
… tom murray, 3 April, 2006 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

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