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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 » Lasiini » Citronella Ants (Lasius) » Subgenus Chthonolasius (Lasius Subgenus Chthonolasius) » Lasius aphidicola
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8005073 - Lasius aphidicola - female
Copyright © 2008 Rob Curtis

8005073 - Lasius aphidicola - Female
Dick Young FP, Kane County, Illinois, USA
June 18, 2008
Size: ~3/32"
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Contributed by Rob Curtis on 23 June, 2008 - 11:52pm
Last updated 27 April, 2011 - 1:49pm

Moved
Moved from Lasius nearcticus.
… James C. Trager, 27 April, 2011 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John R. Maxwell, 10 August, 2008 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

Ants.
Wonderful image. These are ants tending some kind of Sternorrhyncha...I'll be curious to see if the ants turn out to be of the subfamily Dolichoderinae, which tend to look like they have no petiole at all between thorax and abdomen....
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 June, 2008 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Ants are of genus Lasius (Formicinae).
Petiole is hardly to not at all visible on each of the three workers, neither is the apical acidopore (what a bad luck!).
But this magnification allows an ID to Lasius nearcticus, with its typical "caramel" color.
… Richard Vernier, 25 June, 2008 - 4:35am login or register to post comments

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