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ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:14 pm
by SuperChampF350
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 images don't show it her head and gaster are a faint red, she isn't moving too much, i found two of them, no big colonies in sight, both of them have no wings.
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:18 pm
by SuperChampF350
SuperChampF350 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:14 pm
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 images don't show it her head and gaster are a faint red, she isn't moving too much, i found two of them, no big colonies in sight, both of them have no wings and they so like the dryer side of the test tube.
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:03 pm
by shaky33
I'm thinking Melaphorus sp.. Would 100% need better photos for a more accurate identification but that's what I reckon.
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:57 pm
by SuperChampF350
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
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:14 pm
by SuperChampF350
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
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:31 pm
by SuperChampF350
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
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:57 pm
by SuperChampF350
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
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:51 pm
by shaky33
SuperChampF350 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:14 pm
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
Whoops! My bad! Guess I gotta brush up on my North American species. Thanks for pointing that out!
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:52 pm
by SuperChampF350
shaky33 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:51 pm
SuperChampF350 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:14 pm
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
Whoops! My bad! Guess I gotta brush up on my North American species. Thanks for pointing that out!
Sorry for the trouble, the queen died.
Re: ID Help Pls FL
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:37 am
by 123LordOfAnts123
Just your everyday Solenopsis invicta queen.