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#1 Offline Vern530 - Posted January 24 2020 - 12:30 PM

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1. Location (on a map) of collection: gridley ca
2. Date of collection: 1-24-2020
3. Habitat of collection: Under stone in moist soil
4. Length (from head to gaster):small (queen about size of tetramorium queen but bigger head)photo shoes size of worker compared to my thumb
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: black body redish /gold hue to legs and antennae 
6. Distinguishing characteristics: 3 queens in one colony
7. Distinguishing behavior:
8. Nest description: under stone moist soil

9. Nuptial flight time and date:

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#2 Offline jeffpbalderston - Posted January 24 2020 - 12:32 PM

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Myrmecina americana?
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#3 Offline AnthonyP163 - Posted January 24 2020 - 12:41 PM

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Looks like Aphaenogaster, perhaps Aphaenogaster occidentalis.


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#4 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted January 24 2020 - 1:55 PM

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Aphaenogaster occidentalis.


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Currently keeping:

 

Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis


#5 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted January 24 2020 - 2:06 PM

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Aphaenogaster picea it looks like.

#6 Offline AnthonyP163 - Posted January 24 2020 - 2:17 PM

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Aphaenogaster picea it looks like.

A. picea is an eastern species, keep in mind the poster is in California.



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#7 Offline jeffpbalderston - Posted January 24 2020 - 2:55 PM

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Probably nanitics and the reason why the workers are smaller than normal? Second that now to Aphaenogaster occidentalis.
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#8 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 24 2020 - 3:24 PM

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Probably nanitics and the reason why the workers are smaller than normal? Second that now to Aphaenogaster occidentalis.

Normal size for aphaenogaster workers. Looking at the colony size, it's unlikely they are nanitics.



#9 Offline Vern530 - Posted January 24 2020 - 3:25 PM

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ya not sure the species but colony was well into hundreds







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