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ID ant - Pennsylvania

Started By Tacosanddragons , Apr 4 2023 3:21 PM

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#1 Offline Tacosanddragons - Posted April 4 2023 - 3:21 PM

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Hello. Can you help ID this ant? Thank you!

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#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 4 2023 - 3:44 PM

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Prenolepis imparis is my guess. Please provide a bit more info, though.

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#3 Offline United-Ants - Posted April 4 2023 - 6:33 PM

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prenolepis imparis

#4 Offline Artisan_Ants - Posted January 16 2024 - 3:55 PM

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Ye that’s Prenolepis imparis. You can faintly see a dots-like pattern on the thorax, thus indicating that it’s P. imparis.

Keeping:

5x - S. molesta (founding) 2x - C. pennsylvanicus (colonies)

4x - C. chromaiodes (colonies)

4x - T. immigrans (founding queens and colonies)

1x - F. subsericea (founding)

Check out my C. nearcticus journal here: https://www.formicul...cticus-journal/

Check out my C. chromaiodes journal here: https://www.formicul...aiodes-journal/

#5 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted January 17 2024 - 2:13 AM

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Ye that’s Prenolepis imparis. You can faintly see a dots-like pattern on the thorax, thus indicating that it’s P. imparis.

That's not a distinguishing trait for P. imparis...

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

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus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