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Images of Lophomyrmex gynes?

Started By ANTS_KL , Apr 19 2022 2:01 AM

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#1 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted April 19 2022 - 2:01 AM

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Has anyone kept a Lophomyrmex sp. colony before? I did some digging online and found no imaged queen specimens before.


Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus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.

#2 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted April 19 2022 - 3:58 AM

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Best I could find is an illustration of a queen's head in Rigato 1994a, page 50: https://antcat.org/references/128063

Edited by Mettcollsuss, April 19 2022 - 3:59 AM.

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#3 Offline SYUTEO - Posted April 19 2022 - 5:33 PM

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This is probably the only one.


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#4 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted April 19 2022 - 6:02 PM

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Ah, smart. Didn't occur to me to check the indets.


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