Trachymyrmex arizonensis
Arizona, USA
A Trachymyrmex worker foraging in an Oak-Juniper forest. These ants are agriculturalists, cultivating an underground fungus that they feed with plant debris gathered from outside. The sharp tubercules on the body are diagnostic of Trachymyrmex ants.
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