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American Mite-eating Ant

Myrmecina americana

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 98, February 103, March 101, April 184, May 108, June 71, July 58, August 61, September 79, October 92, November 68, December 77.
United States5,114
Mississippi1,100
Canada488
Ontario354
Arkansas304
Georgia289
Tennessee274
Alabama273
North Carolina248
Texas246

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
GenusMite-eating Ants · Myrmecina

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