My First Queens!

[ArizonaAntGuy]

Hello everyone! I would really appreciate it if someone could help me identify my queen ants. There have been some rather intense storms here in Tucson lately, and I managed to find these queens after a storm about a week and a half ago. I have always been fascinated by ants, and I was really excited to find these queens. The first three I caught, before I knew anything about ant keeping, I put in a jar of dirt. The second two (pictured below) I put into test tubes once I realized this was the best environment to keep them in while they establish their colony.

Here are the details:
I caught them on 7/05/17 in Tucson, Arizona.

The queens are about 12 mm in length.

Attached below are a few photos from different angles.

Again, I sincerely appreciate any help you can offer!

[idahoantgirl]

looks like pogernomermex

[Aquaexploder]

Some sort of Pogonomyrmex maybe?

[ArizonaAntGuy]

looks like pogernomermex

Thank you! That's kinda what I was leaning towards but I wasn't sure.

[ArizonaAntGuy]

Some sort of Pogonomyrmex maybe?

I think you might be right! One thing I thought was weird was that I caught these girls inside my house. My cats were going crazy and I had to stop them from eating the ants.

[Ekphoenix]

Hello everyone! I would really appreciate it if someone could help me identify my queen ants. There have been some rather intense storms here in Tucson lately, and I managed to find these queens after a storm about a week and a half ago. I have always been fascinated by ants, and I was really excited to find these queens. The first three I caught, before I knew anything about ant keeping, I put in a jar of dirt. The second two (pictured below) I put into test tubes once I realized this was the best environment to keep them in while they establish their colony.

Here are the details:
I caught them on 7/05/17 in Tucson, Arizona.

The queens are about 12 mm in length.

Attached below are a few photos from different angles.

Again, I sincerely appreciate any help you can offer!

Did you have to offer your queens anything to eat between the time you caught them and the time they produced eggs? Or between your last post and now, if their first workers haven't hatched?
I have a queen that looks very similar to yours. I found her in our garage two days ago.

[Samuelpr1]

I think it is novomessor

[Nj6000]

I agree with pogonomyrmex .

[StormDancer]

Novomessor is my guess as well. They have no beards which is a defining feature of pogonomyrmex. But she is still a harvester ant. I'd be willing to bet if you look around your house there are skinny long legged workers running around who are also lacking beards. I have three of them currently and mistook them for pogonomyrmex until I watched AntsCanada thanksgiving videos on the honeypot and harvester ants. Drew's collection. Novomessor are the ones he has housed in the cement nest.

[Phoenix]

Leaning More Towards Novomessor As Well.