Queen ID - Waterbury, CT

[techno2560]

I had found 5 of these today but i will only post pictures of one of them as they are all identical and found within a 1 mile radius.

Location: Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
Time and Date: July-6-2016, one ant was found at 7am, and the other 4 ants were found at 4pm
Body Length: 8mm - plus/minus 1mm (they like to move haha)
Other Details: They were found with either no wings, all wings, or some wings (one ant had only one, thought that was cool), All have 2 nodes on their abdominal petiole, head and thorax are both a deep brown while the abdomen is lighter in color like a brownish red.

I know the pictures might not be the best, but it was the only macro lense i could find haha.

http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0006.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0008.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0009.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0010.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0011.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0015.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0012.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0016.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0013.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0017.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0014.jpg
http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz28 ... AG0018.jpg

[AntsRule]

looks like a tertamorium sp. E to me, although the pics are not to clear so you will have to make the final call. search up some pics on the internet.

[techno2560]

looks like a tertamorium sp. E to me, although the pics are not to clear so you will have to make the final call. search up some pics on the internet.

Any suggestions on what exactly to get a picture off? If it helps the cause i could probably find dead males as i'm seeing them all over the place where i found these.

Ill try getting more pictures later, let's see what other people have to say lol.

[Batspiderfish]

Looks like Tetramorium sp. E, which is flying all over New England right now. In the future, try to embed a few photographs directly in the post rather than making people go to the ad-riddled image hosting sites. Also, it's often more important to get a picture in focus than it is to get real close, especially with image cropping (cameras come with a LOT of megapixels nowadays.)

Anyways, Tetramoroim is a great ant to keep -- colonies are hardy, grow quickly, and the workers are great excavators. I want make a dirt setup for mine, just to see what they can do with it.

[techno2560]

Looks like Tetramorium sp. E, which is flying all over New England right now. In the future, try to embed a few photographs directly in the post rather than making people go to the ad-riddled image hosting sites. Also, it's often more important to get a picture in focus than it is to get real close, especially with image cropping (cameras come with a LOT of megapixels nowadays.)

Anyways, Tetramoroim is a great ant to keep -- colonies are hardy, grow quickly, and the workers are great excavators. I want make a dirt setup for mine, just to see what they can do with it.

Thanks for the replies, after going through a bunch of images, i have concluded that the ants i had found look exactly like what shows up on google images when i type in "Tetramorium sp. E"

I do have an injured queen, other ants were attacking when i spotted it, i did not want to bother her but since she likes to stay still i will try to post one more picture, outside of a tube and hopefully that will help with the identification.

[Mdrogun]

Looks like Tetramorium sp. E, which is flying all over New England right now. In the future, try to embed a few photographs directly in the post rather than making people go to the ad-riddled image hosting sites. Also, it's often more important to get a picture in focus than it is to get real close, especially with image cropping (cameras come with a LOT of megapixels nowadays.)

Anyways, Tetramoroim is a great ant to keep -- colonies are hardy, grow quickly, and the workers are great excavators. I want make a dirt setup for mine, just to see what they can do with it.

Are sure this is Tetramorium? That was my first thought but the pictures aren't high enough quality for me to be sure. I wouldn't rule out Pheidole.

[techno2560]

Heres some more pictures, i did my best haha
Don't mind the missing pieces of their legs, when i found her she was attacked by other roaming ants.

[AntsRule]

I have caught a ton of these, and from how mine were IDed I think these are tertamorium sp. E

[techno2560]

I have caught a ton of these, and from how mine were IDed I think these are tertamorium sp. E

When i do my research for "tetramorium sp. E" i keep seeing 2 names, Tetramorium caespitum and Tetramorium sp. E - are these the same ants or is there a difference? I read somewheres that they did not have a proper scientific name yet so i was wondering if caespitum is the new name and just hasn't reached all the web pages yet.

[Mdrogun]

Definitely Tetramorium sp. e