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Caribbean Banded Carpenter Ant

Camponotus zonatus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 17, February 13, March 19, April 18, May 16, June 21, July 18, August 11, September 8, October 12, November 11, December 18.
Mexico182
Quintana Roo70
Ecuador45
Galápagos39
Yucatan38
Oaxaca32
Costa Rica31
Provincia Guanacaste15
Guerrero10
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands7

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
GenusCarpenter Ants, Typical Sugar Ants and Allies · Camponotus

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