Let me start off with a detailed description.
Some sort of Pheidole species. A major is around 4 mm average length. The majors have red hues all around, with a black faded abdomen. Their legs are reddish, with faded yellow segments leading to the thorax, which has two bumps, the first one bigger and the second one smaller. Two joints are connected to the bigger bump. It has a two-segmented petiole. The first one is a vaguely camelback shaped segment, the second one being simply a curved bump. The abdomen is somewhat although not completely flattened and faces downwards. The majors' head has curved-down mandibles. The head is heart-shaped, vaguely, and is red as well with black fades leading to the mandibles. The antennae segments are hard to count, but with a good estimate, I counted 10 segments. Minors are roughly 3 mm in length. Their colors can range from black, rich purplish red, orange, red, rich red, or any combination of these. The petioles and general structure of the body are the same as the majors, except of course for the color. Legs in minors are long and spindly, and antennae are also somewhat unusually long for the size, though not as unusually long as Paratrechina longicornis'. The minors head is roughly 1/4 the size of the body, and the majors head is roughly 1/2 the size of their body.
Could this be a new species?
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), Tetramorium bicarinatum, Solenopsis spp. (probably xyloni, the queens are tiny hehe)
