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Eastern Dracula Ant

Stigmatomma pallipes

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 9, February 10, March 15, April 30, May 57, June 27, July 20, August 18, September 19, October 16, November 10, December 9.
United States2,163
Canada273
Ontario239
Mississippi227
New York227
North Carolina215
Tennessee166
Virginia123
Massachusetts111
Arkansas99

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
GenusStigmatomma

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Practise Eastern Dracula Ant with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.