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Ants4lyfe
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Polymorphic species

Post: # 49559Post Ants4lyfe
Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:43 pm

Hi guys I had decided to put this in a sepearate post from the polygynous species as I did not want a long page of boring names. In choosing an ant colony, I also focus on the polymorphism of the ants. It's so cool to see the super major and the small minor ants riding them in the AntsCanada YouTube channel :D So I had compressed a list of polymorphic ants for you guys to refer to in the search of suitable ant species to keep.
Note that these sources are both external and from this forum too. Feel free to tell me anything that could be added or deleted from this list! Excuse my spelling :?
Polymorphic ants:
-Crematogaster clariventrus
-Crematogaster diffirrnis
-Camponotus sansabeanus
-Camponotus semitestaceus
-Camponotus pennysylanicus->quite popular according to my search
-Camponotus herculeanus
-Camponotus subbarbarus
-Camponotus colobopsis
-Camponotus modoc
-Solenopsis xyloni
-Solenopsis invta
-Solenopsis amblychilla
-Solenposis aurea
-Pogonomyrex badius
-Colobopsis
-Formica exsecta?
-Myrmecoeystus
-Tetramorium immigrans and Tetramorium caespitum
-Apharnogaster occurentalis?
-Messor barbarus

Note that most pheidole are dimorphic and not polymorphic

Again pls excuse my spelling there's probably a zillion mistake :D

Alexander
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Location: Portugal

Re: Polymorphic species

Post: # 49872Post Alexander
Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:06 pm

Tetramorium caespitum is not polymorphic
Formica exceta is not polymorphic
Aphenogaster occidentalis is not polymorphic
Not all myrmecocystus are polimorphic

You can add:
Solenopsis ****
Messor structor
Campanotus vagus
Campanotus Barbaricus
Campanotus ligniperda
Campanotus aethiops
Campanotus piceus
Campanotus fallax
Campanotus japonicus
Campanotus nicobarencis
Campanotus trucantus

Note that this are almost all european sp
Keeper of:
Lasius niger
Messor barbarus
Campanotus Barbaricus
Tetramorium Caespitum
Campanotus Vagus
Tapinoma nigerium
Iberoformica subrufa

AntsDakota
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Location: South Dakota

Re: Polymorphic species

Post: # 49912Post AntsDakota
Sun Sep 09, 2018 4:57 pm

Solenopsis geminata, Formica obscuripes and many other closely related parasitic Formica species are polymorphic too. And do not forget Carebara diversa.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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