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Ashmead's Acrobat Ant

Crematogaster ashmeadi

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 165, February 171, March 169, April 308, May 181, June 118, July 98, August 103, September 132, October 153, November 114, December 129.
United States5,839
Mississippi1,840
Louisiana563
Georgia535
Alabama400
Arkansas340
South Carolina325
North Carolina296
Texas180
Virginia117

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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