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Dark version of more commonly red species - Aphaenogaster fulva

Dark version of more commonly red species - Aphaenogaster fulva
Shaw Nature Reserve near Gray Summit, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
April 4, 2010
Size: 3.75-4 mm
Occasionally, this normally red species with yellowish patches on tergite 1, occurs in a dark brown version, like these, still recognizable by the transverse ridge at the anterior edge of the mesonotum.