Nuptial flights in the UAE

[RaptorX]

I am on a quest to identify the ants living in my local area, to give you a bit of info they look like carpenter ants exept they are only 4mm big! Their butt is black,middle is a dark shade of red and the head is black. I am in dubai btw.
I really need to know what species these guys are becuase i want to start my first ant colony and if I don’t get a species name i can’t find a care guide to follow. I will be updating tomorrow with pictures

[antperson24]

I am on a quest to identify the ants living in my local area, to give you a bit of info they look like carpenter ants exept they are only 4mm big! Their butt is black,middle is a dark shade of red and the head is black. I am in dubai btw.
I really need to know what species these guys are becuase i want to start my first ant colony and if I don’t get a species name i can’t find a care guide to follow. I will be updating tomorrow with pictures

I will do my best to identify them! But just know that if she is not a queen, you will not be able to make a colony.

[RaptorX]

i only found workers in my area, i did not catch any of them because they were too small to be a queen
and i did not want to disturb them,
anyways i need a species name to look up when should i go search for queens

[RaptorX]

Here are the pictures:
https://imgur.com/vBD8FDq
https://imgur.com/krX6RoM
https://imgur.com/2kpRJUd
thanks!

[antperson24]

Here are the pictures:
https://imgur.com/vBD8FDq
https://imgur.com/krX6RoM
https://imgur.com/2kpRJUd
thanks!

Sorry, I'm not very acquainted with the species over there, I had some ideas, but when I checked, I was wrong, and I would not want to give you a wrong id. I will try to do some more research, but in the mean time, I did find a list of all of the species in the UAE (from antmaps.org):
Camponotus adenensis
Camponotus alii
Camponotus atlantis
Camponotus empedocles
Camponotus fayfaensis
Camponotus fellah
Camponotus flavomarginatus
Camponotus oasium
Camponotus sericeus
Camponotus thoracicus
Camponotus xerxes
Cardiocondyla bicoronata
Cardiocondyla gallagheri
Cardiocondyla mauritanica
Cataglyphis abyssinica
Cataglyphis acutinodis
Cataglyphis adenensis
Cataglyphis aurata
Cataglyphis bombycina
Cataglyphis cinnamomea
Cataglyphis emmae
Cataglyphis fisheri
Cataglyphis flavobrunnea
Cataglyphis isis
Cataglyphis laevior
Cataglyphis minima
Cataglyphis nigra
Cataglyphis nodus
Cataglyphis rubra
Cataglyphis sabulosa
Cataglyphis saharae
Cataglyphis savignyi
Cataglyphis urens
Cataglyphis viaticoides
Crematogaster aegyptiaca
Crematogaster antaris
Crematogaster jehovae
Crematogaster mimosae
Crematogaster mosis
Crematogaster oasium
Crematogaster senegalensis
Lepisiota bipartita
Lepisiota elegantissima
Lepisiota frauenfeldi
Lepisiota gracilicornis
Lepisiota nigra
Lepisiota nigrescens
Lepisiota omanensis
Lepisiota opaciventris
Lepisiota spinisquama
Leptanilla islamica
Messor ebeninus
Messor foreli
Messor hismai
Messor medioruber
Messor rufotestaceus
Monomorium abeillei
Monomorium acutinode
Monomorium areniphilum
Monomorium barbatulum
Monomorium bicolor
Monomorium buxtoni
Monomorium carbo
Monomorium exiguum
Monomorium fayfaense
Monomorium hanaqe
Monomorium luteum
Monomorium niloticum
Monomorium nitidiventre
Monomorium subopacum
Monomorium tumaire
Monomorium venustum
Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi
Pheidole jordanica
Pheidole sculpturata
Pheidole sinaitica
Polyrhachis lacteipennis
Solenopsis omana
Tapinolepis longitarsis
Temnothorax liviae
Temnothorax megalops
Tetramorium calidum
Tetramorium doriae
Tetramorium juba
Tetramorium latinode
Tetramorium sericeiventre
Tetramorium yemene
Tetraponera ambigua
Trichomyrmex abyssinicus
Trichomyrmex chobauti
Trichomyrmex lameerei
Trichomyrmex perplexus

[antperson24]

Here are the pictures:
https://imgur.com/vBD8FDq
https://imgur.com/krX6RoM
https://imgur.com/2kpRJUd
thanks!

Is there any way you could get better photos? That would help.

[SYUTEO]

Here are the pictures:
https://imgur.com/vBD8FDq
https://imgur.com/krX6RoM
https://imgur.com/2kpRJUd
thanks!

Sorry, I'm not very acquainted with the species over there, I had some ideas, but when I checked, I was wrong, and I would not want to give you a wrong id. I will try to do some more research, but in the mean time, I did find a list of all of the species in the UAE (from antmaps.org):
Cataglyphis abyssinica
Cataglyphis adenensis
Cataglyphis isis
Cataglyphis laevior
Cataglyphis minima
Cataglyphis nodus
Cataglyphis saharae
Cataglyphis savignyi
Cataglyphis urens

The ant in the image is a Formicinae ant, so this rules out any other subfamily. And from the body shape and length of legs and antennae, this rules out Polyrhachis, Tapinolepis, Nylanderia and Lepisiota. From the size of just 4mm, this rules out Camponotus. So we have Cataglyphis left, through the body features of each species, I have ruled out C. acutinodis(No image available), C. aurata, C. bombycina, C. cinnamomea, C. emmae, C. fisheri, C. flavobrunnea, C. nigra, C. rubra, C. sablosa, and C. viaticoides. Now we are left with 9 species of Cataglyphis, for a proper ID we need better pictures.

[RaptorX]

I will try to get better photos of the ants but my iPhone 5 can only do so much

[RaptorX]

I got some more photos:
https://imgur.com/kVAUDSV
https://imgur.com/JGDvvw8
https://imgur.com/92NuHr9

[antperson24]

Here are the pictures:
https://imgur.com/vBD8FDq
https://imgur.com/krX6RoM
https://imgur.com/2kpRJUd
thanks!

Sorry, I'm not very acquainted with the species over there, I had some ideas, but when I checked, I was wrong, and I would not want to give you a wrong id. I will try to do some more research, but in the mean time, I did find a list of all of the species in the UAE (from antmaps.org):
Cataglyphis abyssinica
Cataglyphis adenensis
Cataglyphis isis
Cataglyphis laevior
Cataglyphis minima
Cataglyphis nodus
Cataglyphis saharae
Cataglyphis savignyi
Cataglyphis urens

The ant in the image is a Formicinae ant, so this rules out any other subfamily. And from the body shape and length of legs and antennae, this rules out Polyrhachis, Tapinolepis, Nylanderia and Lepisiota. From the size of just 4mm, this rules out Camponotus. So we have Cataglyphis left, through the body features of each species, I have ruled out C. acutinodis(No image available), C. aurata, C. bombycina, C. cinnamomea, C. emmae, C. fisheri, C. flavobrunnea, C. nigra, C. rubra, C. sablosa, and C. viaticoides. Now we are left with 9 species of Cataglyphis, for a proper ID we need better pictures.

Ok, I was thinking Cataglyphis sp., but wasn't sure.