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Formica dolosa
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Copyright © 2006
tom murray
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Formica dolosa
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
March 31, 2006
Size: 6.5mm
Found under an old branch in a dirt road.
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Contributed by
tom murray
on 31 March, 2006 - 10:20pm
Last updated 2 March, 2009 - 9:12pm
Moved
Moved from
pallidefulva group
.
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tom murray
, 2 March, 2009 - 9:12pm
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Moved
Moved from
Formica pallidefulva-group
.
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Jeff Hollenbeck
, 11 March, 2007 - 2:00pm
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Formica sp. (pallidefulva group) - worker
Compared with fusca-group, these ants have relatively small compound eyes.
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Richard Vernier
, 3 April, 2006 - 8:17am
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The Formica pallidefulva grou
The Formica pallidefulva group was recently revised taxonomically. See this article for all the gory details: http://antbase.org/ants/publications/21293/21293.pdf .
This specimen seems to be F. dolosa, based on the somewhat brownish color and relatively dense pubscence of the gaster.
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James C. Trager
, 4 June, 2008 - 4:05pm
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