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Immigrant Pavement Ant

Tetramorium immigrans

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 91, February 90, March 122, April 213, May 367, June 191, July 135, August 123, September 143, October 132, November 90, December 84.
United States12,016
Canada2,609
New York1,993
Ontario1,877
Massachusetts1,381
Pennsylvania1,082
Utah907
Washington879
Virginia865
Colorado861

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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