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Long-spined Acorn Ant

Temnothorax longispinosus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 25, February 25, March 34, April 59, May 101, June 49, July 37, August 34, September 39, October 36, November 25, December 23.
United States1,599
New York486
Canada251
Massachusetts226
Ontario207
Virginia99
Pennsylvania85
Maryland84
West Virginia77
Tennessee61

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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