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Arboreal Bicolored Slender Ant

Tetraponera rufonigra

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in India.January 87, February 64, March 74, April 175, May 124, June 90, July 92, August 113, September 95, October 116, November 100, December 140.
India1,270
Thailand381
Tamil Nādu326
Malaysia297
Mahārāshtra256
Karnātaka212
Singapore176
Penang130
West Bengal111
Bangkok101

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Ecological

  • ColonialFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyAnts · Formicidae
GenusSlender Twig Ant · Tetraponera

Sources

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