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#1 Offline Tmhernandez77 - Posted June 23 2017 - 10:28 AM

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I caught two of these lovely ladies on Father's day.  Any help on the ID would be awesome.

 

Caught floating in swimming pool, middle of the day.

Weather was around 88-90 F.  Low humidity, light breeze, clear skies.

 

Length:  8 mm

Antennae: appears 10 segmented, with a 2 sectioned club

 

2 bumps between midsection and gaster.

Dark brownish/reddish in color.  Light stripes on gaster.

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They don't lay eggs in a nice, orderly pile.  So far they have laid maybe 5-10 eggs each, and they are scattered individually throughout the test tube.

 


Veromessor pergandei - Liometopum occidentale - Solenopsis xyloni - Unknown species


#2 Offline ultraex2 - Posted June 23 2017 - 10:40 AM

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I think these are either Pheidole or Solenopsis - not too sure on species, though.



#3 Offline Tmhernandez77 - Posted June 23 2017 - 10:44 AM

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I think these are either Pheidole or Solenopsis - not too sure on species, though.

 

I would love it if they were a Pheidole, however I think it's invicta....


Veromessor pergandei - Liometopum occidentale - Solenopsis xyloni - Unknown species


#4 Offline VoidElecent - Posted June 23 2017 - 11:06 AM

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In the future, you should refer to the first and second bumps between the ants' mesosomas and gasters as 'petiole' and 'post petiole' nodes, respectively. Regardless, it's impressive that you knew to add them without the help of a template, so props to you for that.

 

I think you're right, they do look an awful lot like Solenopsis invicta


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#5 Offline Tmhernandez77 - Posted June 23 2017 - 2:07 PM

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In the future, you should refer to the first and second bumps between the ants' mesosomas and gasters as 'petiole' and 'post petiole' nodes, respectively. Regardless, it's impressive that you knew to add them without the help of a template, so props to you for that.

 

I think you're right, they do look an awful lot like Solenopsis invicta

 

Thanks for the info!  I remember reading somewhere that it's important in ant ID, I couldn't remember the correct words though.


Veromessor pergandei - Liometopum occidentale - Solenopsis xyloni - Unknown species


#6 Offline VoidElecent - Posted June 23 2017 - 2:35 PM

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In the future, you should refer to the first and second bumps between the ants' mesosomas and gasters as 'petiole' and 'post petiole' nodes, respectively. Regardless, it's impressive that you knew to add them without the help of a template, so props to you for that.

 

I think you're right, they do look an awful lot like Solenopsis invicta

 

Thanks for the info!  I remember reading somewhere that it's important in ant ID, I couldn't remember the correct words though.

 

 

You should read this thread for future reference, if you plan on catching and identifying any more queens this year.






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