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#1 Offline Subverted - Posted April 25 2015 - 12:27 PM

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It was drizzling and misting almost the whole time I was out there but a lot of stuff was still active.
 
First up:
Habitat of collection: Under a rock in scrub
Length (from head to gaster): 5mm to 10mm?
Color, hue, pattern and texture: workers/majors have reddish pronotum and legs but otherwise black.
Distinguishing characteristics: queens entire mesosoma is reddish.
 
Colony in its new home:
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Queen:
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Camponotus?
Habitat of collection: Under a rock in oak woodland.
Length (from head to gaster): 6mm to 10mm?
Color, hue, pattern and texture:  Black heads and gaster, red mesosoma and legs. Queens are black with red legs.
Nest description: Under rocks, in my experience always with two queens
 
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(I can work on getting better photos, these arent the best)
 
Tapinoma sessile?
Habitat of collection: Under a rock.
Length (from head to gaster): 5mm?
Color, hue, pattern and texture: red mandibles, black everywhere else.
Distinguishing characteristics: velvety look to back of the gaster
 
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Edited by Subverted, April 25 2015 - 12:34 PM.

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#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 25 2015 - 12:34 PM

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Where were these found?



#3 Offline Subverted - Posted April 25 2015 - 12:43 PM

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Off of Ortega highway in a couple spots.


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#4 Offline Jonathan21700 - Posted April 25 2015 - 12:58 PM

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The first two are some sort of Camponotus and the 3 one is probably Tapinoma.



#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 25 2015 - 1:35 PM

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Ohhh, I know the area very well.
 
The first is some sort of Camponotus from the Myrmentoma subgenus, probably C. clarithorax, or C. essigi.
 
The second looks like C. anthrax, also a Camponotus from the Myrmentoma subgenus.
 
Like Jonathan21700 said, the last I think is probably Tapinoma sessile. Are you sure these are 5mm? If they're really 5mm I would say they sure look like Liometopum luctuosum, but I have never seen those out there before.






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