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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 » Crematogastrini » Acorn Ants (Temnothorax) » Temnothorax schaumii
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ant - Temnothorax schaumii
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

ant - Temnothorax schaumii
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
March 14, 2009
Size: 3mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 15 March, 2009 - 12:34am
Last updated 14 February, 2010 - 6:29pm

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Gary, thanks for the species identification! I found just this one ant under bark at the Fresh Pond Reservation in Cambridge.
… tom murray, 14 February, 2010 - 6:29pm login or register to post comments

Temnothorax schaumii
Tom,

This is an excellent photo of Temnothorax schaumii. If you can provide detailed locality information for the Cambridge collection site, I can verity this identification. I am working on a guide to the ants of New England and this is one species that has avoided our collection efforts to date.
The propodeal spines are very short. T. schaumii is common in Mississippi. It is a widespread ant in the southern states but it is not as common in New England.
… Gary D. Alpert, 14 February, 2010 - 11:56am login or register to post comments

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