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Punctured Ant

Myrmica punctiventris

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 48, February 50, March 50, April 90, May 53, June 35, July 29, August 30, September 39, October 45, November 33, December 38.
United States1,968
Mississippi540
Massachusetts267
Canada202
Ontario202
New York157
West Virginia119
Rhode Island117
Pennsylvania111
Michigan81

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
GenusFurrowed Ants · Myrmica

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