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Formicidae (Ants) - Myrmicinae - Tetramorium immigrans - male
Copyright © 2009 Lynn Bergen

Formicidae (Ants) - Myrmicinae - Tetramorium immigrans - Male
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
June 29, 2008

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Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 5 March, 2009 - 12:15am
Last updated 4 October, 2019 - 11:40pm

Moved
Moved from Myrmicinae.
… Steven Wang, 4 October, 2019 - 11:40pm login or register to post comments

Yes - subfamily Myrmicinae
A male reproductive. Such humpbacked thorax and short antennae are somewhat unusual and suggest Solenopsis (but then the small, yellow Thief Ants of the subgenus Diplothoptrum, not the Fire Ants).
Maybe Gordon Snelling will know for sure.
… Richard Vernier, 5 March, 2009 - 7:17am login or register to post comments

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