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At a glance it looks like Formica, but - thanks to your close-ups I can tell the petiole us not defined enough. So maybe Lasius, once again the close-ups show the thorax is doesn't have the rather significant 'second hump' as you would find on Lasius. Georgia, diminutive single petiole, minute conc...

Hawkeye wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:18 am

If you type United States in the search bar of antwiki.org you'll get the list of ants you are after

Wow! Why didn't I use this site sooner? I could've used it to dwindle down to possibilities based on unique anatomical features of each taxon.

Hello, I've signed into this forum as a last resort to getting this ant species identified. I say it's "unusual," because out of the 20+ years for which I've lived in the specified geographic location, I've never seen any other ant species native to my home with this queen's color pattern of black h...