July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Help with identifying the species your ants

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Potato

July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26550Post Potato
Mon Jul 24, 2017 2:43 am

Found this queen ant, date and location in title.
She measures about 8-9 millimetres. Hope you can make something
out of this... I couldn't get the front of the head because
my camera isn't that good. Sorry in advance.
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http://imgur.com/a/bJIna

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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26574Post Batspiderfish
Mon Jul 24, 2017 8:43 am

I can't really tell from the photos. Could be Tetramorium or Crematogaster.
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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26587Post Potato
Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:17 am

Thanks for the answer, if it were one of these to I'd go for tetramorium because I've looked at her lot and noticed a similarity between her and tetramorium. I've looked both of them up and saw that crematogaster usually has a pointy abdomen, mine has not and tetramorium has a certain space between thorax and abdomen. This is also present with crematogaster but not that explicit. So I guess it's a tetramorium for now... But not sure yet so if people have other suggestions, please tell me, it would be highly appreciated...

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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26590Post Potato
Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:20 am

Only seconds later I realise my reasoning is superunlogic and start to doubt again...

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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26679Post Martialis
Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:10 pm

If a few more pictures are taken, an accurate ID can be made.

I am leaning toward Tetramorium as well.
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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26718Post Potato
Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:37 am

Now, I didn't want to disturb her again but I had to for the pictures. Here they are.
http://imgur.com/a/NGOT4

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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26735Post Batspiderfish
Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:06 am

Ah! Thanks for the other pictures. Looks like this is Pheidole sp.
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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26737Post Potato
Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:10 am

Most important at the moment is: is one of these species semi-clusthral?

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Re: July 17th 2017 - South of France, Périgord

Post: # 26739Post Batspiderfish
Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:28 am

This queen is claustral.
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