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Camponotus neararctus is a carpenter ant from the nearartic region.

Podomyrma elongata is a muscle ant with a longer body than the rest of the muscle ants.

Any time phylogeny can be... obvious it's a good thing and it is worth striving for this goal. Sometimes there isn't anything to be done and you end up with a "Hairy Smooth Carpenter Ant" and despite this task being important not enough people are working on it.

And that might be the real issue.
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myrmepropagandist · 4w
Stop fighting wars and revise the phylogeny of the Palaearctic Formica fusca group. There are ants just walking around in your back yard, common ants and almost nobody knows anything about them. We struggle to give them names. These are keystone species. If they vanished the whole ecosystem would to...