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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) » Myrmicinae » Pogonomyrmecini » Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex) » barbatus complex (Pogonomyrmex barbatus complex) » Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
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Red Harvester Ant, ventral - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - female
Copyright © 2011 Edward L. Ruden

Red Harvester Ant, ventral - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - Female
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
October 2, 2011
Size: 9.5 mm
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This view above is a CombineZP processed stack of 159 images with a 51 micron step taken with a reversed Leitz Focotar-2 enlarging lens set to F5.6 + bellows + Nikon D300.

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Red Harvester Ant, dorsal - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - female Red Harvester Ant, ventral - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - female Red Harvester Ant, lateral - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - female Red Harvester Ant, anterior head - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - female
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 30 October, 2011 - 10:03pm

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