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Deceptive Carpenter Ant

Camponotus decipiens

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 53, February 51, March 111, April 110, May 68, June 42, July 30, August 30, September 36, October 39, November 50, December 49.
United States1,800
Texas607
Mississippi470
Louisiana96
North Carolina92
Alabama88
Georgia61
Tennessee51
Arkansas44
South Carolina39

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
GenusCarpenter Ants, Typical Sugar Ants and Allies · Camponotus

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