Palo-verde-associate
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Camponotus festinatus
Festinatus-group Carpenter Ants
Camponotus festinatus is a carpenter ant species native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, with a strong association with palo verde trees. Queens are claustral foundresses, founding colonies without foraging for additional food. The species was historically considered a difficult-to-categorize complex due to morphological variation across its range, leading to taxonomic revisions that split off related species and revived others from synonymy.