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Hairless Rover Ant

Brachymyrmex depilis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 17, February 18, March 28, April 55, May 105, June 49, July 37, August 33, September 35, October 29, November 18, December 16.
United States3,672
Canada632
Ontario440
New York389
Alabama327
Texas247
Mississippi163
Virginia160
Maryland143
North Carolina131

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
GenusRover Ants · Brachymyrmex

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