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Common Porthole Ant

Ponera pennsylvanica

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 188, February 196, March 193, April 351, May 207, June 135, July 111, August 117, September 151, October 175, November 129, December 147.
United States7,269
Mississippi2,098
Canada584
Ontario486
Alabama469
New York390
Tennessee387
North Carolina380
Illinois340
Arkansas328

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
GenusPorthole Ants · Ponera

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