Please help me identify this ant!

Help with identifying the species your ants

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cjerg9
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Location: Clunes Victoria

Please help me identify this ant!

Post: # 77468Post cjerg9
Mon May 10, 2021 1:52 am

I’m really lost on this one. She is probably not a Iridomyrmex queen because they usually have very small drones but I found the drone with this queen and they were quite large like Rhytidoponera drones but then again she doesn’t have that distinct gaster shape. I think she might be a Crematogaster but i managed to find a colony of the same species outside and they were very similar size to the queen sadly I didn’t have my phone on me at the time to take photos and couldn’t locate the colony afterwards. I don’t know much about Crematogaster but I do believe the workers are small compared to the queen. It makes me think she is semi-claustral seeing such large workers. They weren’t major workers either.

Anyways she was found in Australia, VIC. I’ve attached a few photos of her and also some other queens I found outside during the nupital flight. She is about 8mm long with a very shiny black gaster and somewhat metallic mesosoma. Her gaster also tapers into a point. Her mandibles are reddish orange in colour.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thankyou.

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(Also my apologies if anyone is upset with the queen being held I was checking to see if she had a sting I don’t think they do but the gaster is tipped to look like a sting)

cjerg9
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Joined: Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:16 am
Location: Clunes Victoria

Re: Please help me identify this ant!

Post: # 77470Post cjerg9
Mon May 10, 2021 2:06 am

My closest guess would be Notoncus capitatus they are semi-claustral what do you think?

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