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Small-lined Acrobat Ant

Crematogaster lineolata

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 124, February 130, March 128, April 233, May 137, June 89, July 74, August 78, September 100, October 116, November 86, December 97.
United States5,495
Mississippi1,391
Tennessee450
Texas331
Illinois322
Arkansas294
Massachusetts265
Alabama240
North Carolina194
Missouri190

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
GenusAcrobat Ants and Cocktail Ants · Crematogaster

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