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Allegheny Mound Ant (Formica exsectoides)
Photo#175060
Copyright © 2008
Charley Eiseman
Mound ants with aphids -
Formica exsectoides
-
Chesterfield, New Hampshire, USA
September 16, 2007
These ants had several large mounds nearby. Are they
Formica exsectoides
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Contributed by
Charley Eiseman
on 1 April, 2008 - 4:31pm
Last updated 20 April, 2012 - 12:46am
I think so...
Because key features seem to match well with the Alleghany Mound Ant, namely shape of vertex visible on leftmost worker and shape of 1rst urtotergite visible on the one at right.
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Richard Vernier
, 1 April, 2008 - 4:50pm
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