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I'm thinking Melaphorus sp. . Would 100% need better photos for a more accurate identification but that's what I reckon. Wait, but Melaphorus is an Australian genus, is there any genuses that are similar to Melaphorus Whoops! My bad! Guess I gotta brush up on my North American species. Thanks for p...

shaky33 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:03 pm

I'm thinking Melaphorus sp.. Would 100% need better photos for a more accurate identification but that's what I reckon.

Sorry, spam, I know, but it’s between solenopsis, Formica, and tetramoriom

shaky33 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:03 pm

I'm thinking Melaphorus sp.. Would 100% need better photos for a more accurate identification but that's what I reckon.

Looking closer it may be a Formica archboldi queen due to distribution, color and the size, also that the legs are in the same place (just under the mesosoma

shaky33 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:03 pm

I'm thinking Melaphorus sp.. Would 100% need better photos for a more accurate identification but that's what I reckon.

Wait, but Melaphorus is an Australian genus, is there any genuses that are similar to Melaphorus

shaky33 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:03 pm

I'm thinking Melaphorus sp.. Would 100% need better photos for a more accurate identification but that's what I reckon.

Thanks, I saw her cleaning (one of) her gaster so !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I searched up Melaphorus and they both looks sort of like one of them

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YAD5RTALLPbgHBvy6 About 9-10 Millimeters, sorry about the bad images I can't get them better. Found on 2/5/19 at around 4:30 PM in Land O Lakes florida in an area with a big sidewalk with two decent size strips of grass, close to houses found on the sidewalk while the imag...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YAD5RTALLPbgHBvy6 About 9-10 Millimeters, sorry about the bad images I can't get them better. Found on 2/5/19 at around 4:30 PM in Land O Lakes florida in an area with a big sidewalk with two decent size strips of grass, close to houses found on the sidewalk while the image...

Okay, this is definitely Formicidae , and I think that you are probably correct in saying that this is part of the tribe Lasiini ; as it is too small for either Formica or Camponotus . However, I can't say whether this is Lasius , Nylanderia , Paratrechina , or something else. The stripes are a goo...

antnest8 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 03, 2018 6:11 pm

do you have the length of the queen because the queen does not look big enough for a camponotus sp.

Yah I posted it in my replies to myself, 5mm

I found this one in November 16 around 4:30 PM in Land O Lakes FL (Near Tampa)there are stripes on the gaster, and she like the humid side, also, sorry that the photos are a little blurry. https://imgur.com/gallery/7k5U9WA Btw I live in subtropics for those who don’t live in Florida so I have some ...