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Camponotus planatus - female
Copyright © 2010 Ben Coulter

Camponotus planatus - Female
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Cameron County, Texas, USA
March 27, 2008
Size: ~4 mm
A rather fuzzy record shot. I wonder if the population of C. planatus from south Texas might be native?
Contributed by Ben Coulter on 23 April, 2010 - 12:28pm
Last updated 10 December, 2011 - 3:53pm

It might be
in the sense that a recent natural extension of the species' range toward North, along Mexican Coast, cannot be excluded.
By contrast, that such a visible - not to say striking - ant had remained unnoticed previously in TX seems rather unlikely.
… Richard Vernier, 23 April, 2010 - 1:25pm

 
Wheeler
W. M. Wheeler gives a C. Schaeffer record of planatus from the Brownsville area in his 1910 work on North American Camponotus.
… Ben Coulter, 26 February, 2011 - 10:07am

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