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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 » Attini » Fungus Growing Ants (Attina) » Cyphomyrmex » Cyphomyrmex wheeleri
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Vail ant b - Cyphomyrmex wheeleri
Copyright © 2020 Jillian Cowles

Vail ant b - Cyphomyrmex wheeleri
Vail, Pima County, Arizona, USA
June 20, 2018
Unfortunately this specimen was dying when I collected it from a pitfall trap, so the photo is not good. But the heavy front legs looked different from any other ant I have seen.
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Contributed by Jillian H. Cowles on 10 May, 2020 - 10:00am
Last updated 10 May, 2020 - 3:02pm

C. wheeleri indeed
Easily distinguished from C. flavidus by its sharp petiolar node.

Moved from Cyphomyrmex.
… Steven Wang, 10 May, 2020 - 3:02pm login or register to post comments

This might be C. wheeleri per
This might be C. wheeleri per James C. Trager.
… Jillian H. Cowles, 10 May, 2020 - 2:29pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps.
… Jillian H. Cowles, 10 May, 2020 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

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