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Bicolored Pennant Ant

Tetramorium bicarinatum

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 49, February 47, March 54, April 102, May 74, June 43, July 47, August 47, September 67, October 60, November 46, December 45.
United States1,302
Texas560
Louisiana234
Australia209
Mississippi158
Queensland138
China132
India78
New South Wales65
New Zealand44

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
GenusFierce, Pennant, and Pavement Ants · Tetramorium

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