Best Answer YsTheAnt , June 11 2024 - 5:06 PM
Camponotus laevigatus.
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Posted June 11 2024 - 4:43 PM
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Found in SoCal, Tujunga at a park connected to a sandy trail at about 9 PM. The queen was on a tree when I caught her. She is about 10mm, all shiny black with some hairs on her gaster.
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Posted June 11 2024 - 5:01 PM
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Looks like Camponotus Modoc or something like that. Definitely a Camponotus though. How long have you had her for? Looks like she's doing really great!
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Posted June 11 2024 - 5:38 PM
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wasnt the name changed again? To C.laevissimus?
Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, June 11 2024 - 5:54 PM.
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
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Posted June 11 2024 - 5:50 PM
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Looks like Camponotus Modoc or something like that. Definitely a Camponotus though. How long have you had her for? Looks like she's doing really great!
They are not. They don't have red legs nor to my knowledge are in SoCal. Thanks though.
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Posted June 11 2024 - 6:43 PM
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wasnt the name changed again? To C.laevissimus?
The name change happened once (Mackay, 2019) with C. quercicola being synonimized into C. laevigatus and a new taxon described for what many people erroneously IDed as C. laevigatus. This is C. laevigatus - C. laevissimus looks nothing like this at all.
They are not. They don't have red legs nor to my knowledge are in SoCal. Thanks though.
There is three known populations of C. modoc in Southern California.
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Posted June 11 2024 - 10:18 PM
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wasnt the name changed again? To C.laevissimus?
The name change happened once (Mackay, 2019) with C. quercicola being synonimized into C. laevigatus and a new taxon described for what many people erroneously IDed as C. laevigatus. This is C. laevigatus - C. laevissimus looks nothing like this at all.
They are not. They don't have red legs nor to my knowledge are in SoCal. Thanks though.
There is three known populations of C. modoc in Southern California.
My bad, but this isn't modoc, right?
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Posted June 12 2024 - 6:30 AM
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No not modoc
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
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Posted June 12 2024 - 10:28 AM
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Ok so I was correct.
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