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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) » pallidefulva group (Formica pallidefulva group) » Formica dolosa
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worker ant - Formica dolosa
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

worker ant - Formica dolosa
Milton, Massachusetts, USA
August 18, 2004
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Contributed by tom murray on 7 May, 2005 - 7:40am
Last updated 2 March, 2009 - 9:15pm

Moved
Moved from pallidefulva group.
… tom murray, 2 March, 2009 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
to no taxon page so IDed species can be added to taxonomy page at the species level.
This group was previously submitted at the species level, which only allowed the subspecies level to be added under it.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 11 March, 2007 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

Formica sp. (pallidefulva group) - worker
Nice shot of one of these hairy, slender Formica ants.
… Richard Vernier, 29 March, 2006 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

 
Nice indeed, especially for s
Nice indeed, especially for showing the mesosomal (thorax) hair pattern. The Formica pallidefulva group was recently revised taxonomically. See this article for all the gory details: http://antbase.org/ants/publications/21293/21293.pdf .

This specimen looks like Formica dolosa, quite hairy and with dense, fine pubescence on the gaster.
… James C. Trager, 4 June, 2008 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

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