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Bent-spined Acorn Ant

Temnothorax curvispinosus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 76, February 79, March 78, April 142, May 83, June 54, July 45, August 47, September 61, October 70, November 52, December 59.
United States4,974
Mississippi847
Virginia400
Arkansas353
New York347
Maryland323
Massachusetts281
Illinois235
Missouri192
New Jersey189

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
GenusAcorn Ants and Allies · Temnothorax

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