Paratrechina pubens

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Paratrechina pubens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Paratrechina
Species: P. pubens
Binomial name
Paratrechina pubens
(Forel, 1893)

Paratrechina pubens is a species of ant of the genus Paratrechina, commonly called the Caribbean crazy ant. These ants are about one-eighth inch long and are covered with reddish-brown hairs. The colonies have multiple queens. An infestation of this species, or a related species provisionally named Paratrechina species near pubens, is ongoing in and around Houston, Texas.[1]

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