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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 » Formicini » Wood ants, mound ants, & field ants (Formica) » fusca group (Formica fusca group) » Formica subsericea
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black ant - Formica subsericea
Copyright © 2006 Jonathan Burishkin

black ant - Formica subsericea
Collegedale, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
May 8, 2006
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Contributed by Jonathan Burishkin on 17 May, 2006 - 6:44pm
Last updated 24 February, 2011 - 2:38pm

Moved
Moved from Formica.
… Ben Coulter, 24 February, 2011 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… George Waldren, 25 June, 2007 - 4:14pm login or register to post comments

Formica sp. (fusca group) - worker
Most likely Formica subsericea, the widespread (and in most regions the only one) "silky Ant" of the South-Eastern states.
… Richard Vernier, 20 May, 2006 - 5:21am login or register to post comments

 
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