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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) » fusca group (Formica fusca group) » Formica xerophila
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Ant host for histerid - Formica xerophila
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Ant host for histerid - Formica xerophila
Laguna Mountains, San Diego County, California, USA
May 23, 2009
Size: 4-5mm
Ant host for the beetle to which it is linked.

All pics taken with automontage system. Actual montaging done with CombineZP.

Formica?

Images of this individual: tag all
Histerid - Haeterius californicus Histerid - Haeterius californicus Histerid - Haeterius californicus Ant host for histerid - Formica xerophila Ant host for histerid - Formica xerophila
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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 7 June, 2009 - 5:51pm
Last updated 5 January, 2013 - 2:53pm

Moved
Moved from Haeterius californicus.
… Charley Eiseman, 5 January, 2013 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Formica xerophila.
… v belov, 5 January, 2013 - 2:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 February, 2010 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

Formica moki or xerophila
These two are distiguished by relative and absolute length of the appendages. As long-legged as this one is, I'm leaning toward xerophila.
… James C. Trager, 26 August, 2009 - 2:41pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Hetaerius.
… Jeff Gruber, 7 June, 2009 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

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