Ant found in Germany/Nuermberg

ProfessorMoHnK · Post: # 31153Post **ProfessorMoHnK** Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:33 am

I today cought another ant, which I suspect to be a queen due to her big thorax.
I found her in the forrest:

That's what she looks like:

She emideatly startet cleaning her had, thorax and but (whatever the correct word is

) as soon as I cought her in a tube.
Any information is helpfull!

Thanks,
Moritz

ProfessorMoHnK · Post: # 31155Post **ProfessorMoHnK** Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:43 am

addition: I suspect it to be the species Manica rubida, Tetramorium impurum or most likely Temnothorax unifasciatus

Batspiderfish · Post: # 31156Post **Batspiderfish** Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:24 am

Myrmica sp.

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