Species ID Please

Help with identifying the species your ants

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Species ID Please

Post: # 26399Post Aussie
Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:44 pm

Caught last year during nuptial flights in Australia, Tweed Heads.

See photos attached. (Says files are to large so had to upload to imgur)

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https://imgur.com/a/yyQIq

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Re: Species ID Please

Post: # 26402Post Aussie
Sun Jul 23, 2017 12:16 am

Should add queen is roughly 12mm, maybe a bit smaller.

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Re: Species ID Please

Post: # 26412Post Antsinohio
Sun Jul 23, 2017 2:42 am

It looks like a formica fusca. But im not sure its a formica queen though its to small to be a camponotus queen they are 15-18mm

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Re: Species ID Please

Post: # 26479Post Aussie
Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:34 pm

Thanks for your input but Formica fusca are not found in Australia, I have been thinking along the lines of iridomyrmex bicknelli?

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Re: Species ID Please

Post: # 26695Post Martialis
Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:31 pm

This does look like Iridomyrmex.
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