Identifying Ants from Singapore

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Shizuki

Identifying Ants from Singapore

Post: # 13380Post Shizuki
Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:05 am

I have 3 unidentified species of queens in my possession and i need some help identifying xD
I come from hot sunny island of Singapore with a Tropical weather :D

I have them in this link, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1L2q ... Ud0SXRuRmc
In the folder the queens are named 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, anything with a .1/2/3 still the same queen :D

1.0 and 2.0 are like 10-11mm(or 12mm),
while 3.0 is around 15-17mm.

Thanksss xD hehe

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Batspiderfish
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Re: Identifying Ants from Singapore

Post: # 13383Post Batspiderfish
Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:42 am

I'm not sure which queens you were referring to in the album, but they all look like Camponotus to me.
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Shizuki

Re: Identifying Ants from Singapore

Post: # 13391Post Shizuki
Sat Oct 08, 2016 11:06 am

What do you mean, which queens im referring too? :0

i kinda guessed it was camponotus but im just not sure which exactly the species name is. :3

i dont the species of all 3 species, unfortunately. xP

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Re: Identifying Ants from Singapore

Post: # 13392Post Batspiderfish
Sat Oct 08, 2016 12:27 pm

There is a lot of ant diversity in Singapore, particularly with Camponotus, so you would probably need them examined by a myrmecologist with local experience to identify down to the species. That species might not even have a real name yet.

I was saying that the way your pictures were presented was confusing to me, and I wasn't sure when pictures of one queen ended and another began.
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Re: Identifying Ants from Singapore

Post: # 13624Post zpiter
Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:20 pm

All are campontous sp queen.

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