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Granulate Crypt Ant

Hypoponera opaciceps

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 Mississippi.January 22, February 23, March 22, April 41, May 24, June 16, July 13, August 14, September 17, October 20, November 15, December 17.
United States1,557
Mississippi243
California172
Texas148
Louisiana130
Alabama99
Georgia84
Arizona29
North Carolina29
Arkansas27

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
GenusCrypt Ants · Hypoponera

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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