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Trachymyrmex arizonensis
Arizona, USA

photograph © Alex Wild 2005

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.

 
USA AZ Cochise Co.: Southwestern Research Station, 7 km WSW Portal.
1560m  31º53´N 109º12´W  10.viii.2005 
Open Oak-Juniper Woodland.  #AW2670, voucher specimens deposited at ALWC.


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This image was captured with a Canon EOS D60, with a Canon 65/2.8 MPE 1-5x Macro lens.