Well there you have it! It looks like I lied to several people who thought they were buying Monomorium minimum when in fact they bought Tetramorium sp E! Thanks guys!!Batspiderfish wrote:Monomorium minimum lacks sculpting on much of the body (giving them their smooth, shiny appearance), which Tetramorium are in excess of. The rough texture on the head and mesosoma are givaways. Monomorium queens are very slender, with the mesosoma barely half the width of the gaster, when viewed from above. Another detail, although it can't be picked up from the photos, is that Monomorium minimum have no propodeal spines at all, while Tetramorium do have small ones (even the queen). Monomorium queens top out at around 5mm in length.
My first colony- Monomorium minimum.
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