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Ant host for Cremastocheilus - Formica subsericea
Copyright © 2010 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Ant host for Cremastocheilus - Formica subsericea
Wood Co. SWA, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA
May 10, 2007
Size: 9mm
This is the ant host for the beetle it is linked to.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 5 January, 2010 - 7:08pm
Last updated 5 February, 2011 - 2:21pm

Moved
Mea maxima culpa - I went back and looked at a number of specimens of subsericea & argentea. So we're back where I started - These are subsericea, based on the head shape, with very convex vertex in full face view, rather than straight-margined, boxy rear margin of argentea.
What was I thinking?!?!
… James C. Trager, 5 February, 2011 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

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Jeff - Sorry to do this: Though I first thought this was subsericea, the few, small, erect bristles on the pronotum, the reddish tinged extremities, and silky pubescence of the gastral tergites now scream Formica argentea to me.
… James C. Trager, 28 July, 2010 - 11:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Formica.
… James C. Trager, 20 July, 2010 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cremastocheilus castaneus.
… Jeff Gruber, 5 January, 2010 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

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