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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 incerta
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Red Carpenter Ant - Formica incerta
Copyright © 2009 Shelly Cox

Red Carpenter Ant - Formica incerta
Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri, USA
July 1, 2008
Size: 3/4 inch
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Contributed by Shelly Cox on 14 February, 2009 - 5:47pm
Last updated 13 October, 2014 - 1:13am

Moved
Moved from pallidefulva group.
… James C. Trager, 23 May, 2011 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 February, 2010 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

Formica sp. (pallidefulva group) - worker
Shape of alitrunk (thorax) differs in both genera. Similar reddish Camponotus like C. castaneus have a distinctly more humpbacked one.
… Richard Vernier, 15 February, 2009 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

Linking
These are not the same insect, unlinking.
… John R. Maxwell, 14 February, 2009 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

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