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Dorymorymex vs Linepithema Humile

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#1 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted January 25 2018 - 5:40 PM

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I'm not sure if anyone else has this problem, but I cannot tell dorymyrmex workers apart from Argentine workers. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to tell then apart? Thanks for any help

Edited by YsTheAnt, January 25 2018 - 6:37 PM.

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#2 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted January 25 2018 - 6:08 PM

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Argentine ant queens have very flat gasters and are skinny.

#3 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted January 25 2018 - 6:37 PM

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Argentine ant queens have very flat gasters and are skinny.

I mean workers, but changed the first post

Edited by YsTheAnt, January 25 2018 - 6:38 PM.

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#4 Offline VoidElecent - Posted January 25 2018 - 7:11 PM

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I don't have too much experience identifying Linethipema, but from what I understand, Dorymyrmex worker gasters are typically stubbier and less elongated than their invasive cousins'. I think some Dorymyrmex species' legs are generally longer and heads may also be wider than Linethipema.

 

The easy way would be to identify where they're nesting. Dorymyrmex are more likely to live in dirt or sand mounds in open areas and are unlikely to nest in the sides of houses or unconventional ant "nests". 

 

I visited San Jose in the summer and don't believe I encountered Dorymrmex, but Linethipema were quite common. I think you're more likely to find pyramid ants closer to the desert than San Jose.



#5 Offline Ants_Texas - Posted January 25 2018 - 7:34 PM

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I don't have too much experience identifying Linethipema, but from what I understand, Dorymyrmex worker gasters are typically stubbier and less elongated than their invasive cousins'. I think some Dorymyrmex species' legs are generally longer and heads may also be wider than Linethipema.

 

The easy way would be to identify where they're nesting. Dorymyrmex are more likely to live in dirt or sand mounds in open areas and are unlikely to nest in the sides of houses or unconventional ant "nests". 

 

I visited San Jose in the summer and don't believe I encountered Dorymrmex, but Linethipema were quite common. I think you're more likely to find pyramid ants closer to the desert than San Jose.

I agree with Void here. I used to keep Dorymyrmex bicolor, and I remember they were quite leggy. 



#6 Offline StopSpazzing - Posted February 2 2018 - 4:39 PM

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Dorymyrmex******* (btw) Funny, I have both Argentines and Dorymyrmex insanus in my house right now, waiting for more workers from the Dorymyrmex, but have 50+ workers from the Argentines (for experimentation). I can compare them once I get more workers, the first worker died on me recently. :( From what I remember they look pretty close.


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#7 Offline dspdrew - Posted February 2 2018 - 6:09 PM

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Dorymyrmex have a little cone-like structure on their thorax.



#8 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted February 2 2018 - 8:06 PM

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Yeah autocorrect screwed up dorymyrmex to dorymorymex. Thanks for all the help though

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#9 Offline AntsMaryland - Posted February 3 2018 - 11:44 AM

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Dorymyrmex******* (btw) Funny, I have both Argentines and Dorymyrmex insanus in my house right now, waiting for more workers from the Dorymyrmex, but have 50+ workers from the Argentines (for experimentation). I can compare them once I get more workers, the first worker died on me recently. :( From what I remember they look pretty close.

Haha, when you said "in my house" my first reaction was, in your house as pests? #kitchenants

 

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