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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Camponotus modoc - Western Black Carpenter Ant

Black ant - Camponotus modoc Ant with an unusually large head - Camponotus modoc Larged, winged ant - Camponotus modoc Formicidae - Camponotus modoc - female High altitude Camponotus - Camponotus modoc What kind of ant? - Camponotus modoc Western Black Carpenter Ant - Camponotus modoc Camponotus - Camponotus modoc - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)
Family Formicidae (Ants)
Subfamily Formicinae
Tribe Camponotini
Genus Camponotus (Carpenter Ants)
No Taxon (Subgenus Camponotus)
Species modoc (Western Black Carpenter Ant)
Other Common Names
Known simply as the black carpenter ant in the Mountain West and Pacific Northwest, I suggest prefacing with "Western" to distinguish from C. pennsylvanicus.
Range
Mountains of western US and southwestern Canada (apparently nowhere sympatric with the closely related C. pennsylvanicus)
Habitat
Conifer forest, in dead wood. Also in wood structures.
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