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Tawny Collared Ant

Aphaenogaster fulva

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 112, February 116, March 115, April 209, May 123, June 80, July 66, August 70, September 90, October 104, November 77, December 87.
United States5,179
Mississippi1,250
Virginia682
Maryland646
Alabama333
New York203
Louisiana183
Georgia176
Illinois168
New Jersey149

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
GenusCollared Ants · Aphaenogaster

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