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| | Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Paratrechina pubens Forel (1893) was described from St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles, and has been found on other West Indian islands, including Anguilla, Guadeloupe, and Puerto Rico (Trager 1984). |
 | | Similar ants: Paratrechina guatemalensis (Forel 1885), the Guatemalan crazy ant, has pale middle and hind coxae, shorter, stouter, and darker pilosity (Davis 2003, personal communication), and is notably smaller than pubens, total length 2.0 to 2.5 mm as compared to 2.6 to 3.0 mm for pubens (Trager 2004 personal communication). |
 | | Ants were observed emerging from soffits, between railroad ties used in landscaping, under wooden debris, underground electrical conduits, and cracks in cement. |
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