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Started By Abdul , Mar 3 2021 6:09 AM

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#1 Offline Abdul - Posted March 3 2021 - 6:09 AM

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Is this Nylanderia sp / Tapinoma sp?

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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 3 2021 - 6:31 AM

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That looks like nylanderia, and that’s a very interesting looking nylanderia species.

Edited by Manitobant, March 3 2021 - 6:34 AM.

My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#3 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 3 2021 - 6:40 AM

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Tapinoma Melanocephalum.

#4 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 3 2021 - 6:42 AM

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Tapinoma Melanocephalum.

nope. The shape is completely different, and melanocephalum have a dark thorax and their queens are smaller.
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#5 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 3 2021 - 6:56 AM

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Tapinoma Melanocephalum.

nope. The shape is completely different, and melanocephalum have a dark thorax and their queens are smaller.
huh, workers thorax can vary from almost no brown spots to fully brown(https://www.antweb.o...um&caste=worker). Queen's wings are covering her gaster so don't really sure how the gaster looks, but head head shape and thorax looks similar to me(https://www.antweb.o...lum&caste=queen).

#6 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 3 2021 - 7:00 AM

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The body shape looks like nylanderia though. Take this for an example: https://commons.m.wi...1569780291).jpg
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#7 Offline Abdul - Posted March 3 2021 - 7:20 AM

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I'm sorry for the double thread mods. Good internet connection is a unicorn in my place. :/


#8 Offline Abdul - Posted March 3 2021 - 7:23 AM

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The queen and workers body shape and size is almost identical to Nylanderia tjibodana. No luck on antweb and antwiki. And I'm 100% sure that this isn't T. melanocephalum. Squeeze one and no smell.


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#9 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted March 3 2021 - 7:29 AM

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Researches discovered a species of Nylanderia that at first they thought to be ghost ants (¨Tapinoma Melanocephalum¨) and discovering later that they were actually a unfound species of Nylanderia, nice find since these are a kinda new discovery.


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#10 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 3 2021 - 7:42 AM

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Well Manitoba is correct I guess :). By the way it says that they should smell fermented beer when you crush it lol(la beer makers).

 

For the case of Tapinoma melanocephalum in central Colombia, it smells like fermented beer when you crush the ant workers.

#11 Offline Abdul - Posted March 25 2021 - 1:30 AM

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:)  :)  :)  :)  :) 

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Edited by Abdul, March 25 2021 - 1:32 AM.

#12 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted February 23 2024 - 9:18 PM

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I am 3 years late and don't mean to necropost or anything, but I do want to bring this to the communities' attention. The ants here are likely Paraparatrechina tapinomoides. I myself have a few specimens and one incipient colony. Safe to say, they do in fact match the description. So yeah, just a little bit of info to toss out there :)

Edited by ANTS_KL, February 23 2024 - 9:31 PM.

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YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.
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