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Carpenter Ant.

Camponotus sp.

Description:

Most species are more easily identified from the major workers. Many are large ants; all have antennal bases separated from clypeal border by a space at least equal to the maximum diameter of the scape, mesosomal dorsal profile a continuous curve from pronotum through propodeum (except some subgenus Colobopsis, and these are easily recongnized by the truncate and heavily punctate circumoral portion of the head of majors).

Habitat:

Found in Sugar Maple log.

Notes:

Possibly a male.

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Fyn Kynd
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Fyn Kynd

Maine, USA

Spotted on Nov 27, 2012
Submitted on Dec 7, 2012

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