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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) » sanguinea group (Formica sanguinea group) » Formica subintegra
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Red ant - Formica subintegra - female
Copyright © 2010 Charley Eiseman

Red ant - Formica subintegra - Female
Annieopsquotch Mountains, Newfoundland, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
June 17, 2010
Only shot I got of this one... I'm submitting it just in case it turns out to be something interesting.
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 14 July, 2010 - 8:46pm
Last updated 16 July, 2010 - 1:39pm

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… Charley Eiseman, 16 July, 2010 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

A better view of the head wou
A better view of the head would be more definitive, but this appears, based on the reddish hints at the base of gastral tergite I, to be the "slave-making" Formica subintegra. Most likely it parasitizes F. glacialis up that way, while farther south, it uses F. subsericea.
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