Key Identification Features
- Its most recognizable features are the black and yellow lines covering the head, thorax, and abdomen.
- Queen-like and worker-like members of this species cannot be told apart by physical traits, and are instead distinguished by their behavior.
- pensylvanica can usually be distinguished by a continuous yellow ring, called an eye-loop, around each eye.
- pensylvanica can be identified by a spotted mark on the frons below the antenna, a slender aedeagus, and a denser apical region on the seventh tergum.
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