Species ID skills

[JaydenScheepers]

How can you properly ID a exact species in a very diverse genus like Camponotus if the internet doesn't even list all of them?

[SolenopsisKeeper]

How can you properly ID a exact species in a very diverse genus like Camponotus if the internet doesn't even list all of them?

Look on sites like ant web. Sometimes they are listed, but usually antwiki has them in keys. What genus did you have in mind?

[JaydenScheepers]

How can you properly ID a exact species in a very diverse genus like Camponotus if the internet doesn't even list all of them?

Look on sites like ant web. Sometimes they are listed, but usually antwiki has them in keys. What genus did you have in mind?

Camponotus, but I'll have to do a re-identification on my Odontomachus queen.

[SolenopsisKeeper]

How can you properly ID a exact species in a very diverse genus like Camponotus if the internet doesn't even list all of them?

Look on sites like ant web. Sometimes they are listed, but usually antwiki has them in keys. What genus did you have in mind?

Camponotus, but I'll have to do a re-identification on my Odontomachus queen.

Most Odontomachus have slight differences, so many species will be listed as sub species

[JaydenScheepers]

Look on sites like ant web. Sometimes they are listed, but usually antwiki has them in keys. What genus did you have in mind?

Camponotus, but I'll have to do a re-identification on my Odontomachus queen.

Most Odontomachus have slight differences, so many species will be listed as sub species

Sounds difficult to ID her then

[SolenopsisKeeper]

Camponotus, but I'll have to do a re-identification on my Odontomachus queen.

Most Odontomachus have slight differences, so many species will be listed as sub species

Sounds difficult to ID her then

I ID’ed my ants on males they produced on accident. Once you see two species males, you can instantly tell the two queens species apart. You just start to recognize features that may slightly vary, but it gives you a pretty accurate estimate of what species you have.

[JaydenScheepers]

Most Odontomachus have slight differences, so many species will be listed as sub species

Sounds difficult to ID her then

I ID’ed my ants on males they produced on accident. Once you see two species males, you can instantly tell the two queens species apart. You just start to recognize features that may slightly vary, but it gives you a pretty accurate estimate of what species you have.

Alright thanks, I also found what I believe to be a semi-caulostrial queen, not sure of the species or genus. Maybe Polyrhachis, because she has to spines, but I'm not sure of there are any species of Polyrhachis which are semi-caulostrial. I'll request an ID as soon as I get her into a test-tube.

[SYUTEO]

Sounds difficult to ID her then

I ID’ed my ants on males they produced on accident. Once you see two species males, you can instantly tell the two queens species apart. You just start to recognize features that may slightly vary, but it gives you a pretty accurate estimate of what species you have.

Alright thanks, I also found what I believe to be a semi-caulostrial queen, not sure of the species or genus. Maybe Polyrhachis, because she has to spines, but I'm not sure of there are any species of Polyrhachis which are semi-caulostrial. I'll request an ID as soon as I get her into a test-tube.

I'm pretty sure all Polyrhachis are semi-claustral.

[JaydenScheepers]

I ID’ed my ants on males they produced on accident. Once you see two species males, you can instantly tell the two queens species apart. You just start to recognize features that may slightly vary, but it gives you a pretty accurate estimate of what species you have.

Alright thanks, I also found what I believe to be a semi-caulostrial queen, not sure of the species or genus. Maybe Polyrhachis, because she has to spines, but I'm not sure of there are any species of Polyrhachis which are semi-caulostrial. I'll request an ID as soon as I get her into a test-tube.

I'm pretty sure all Polyrhachis are semi-claustral.

They looked to me like fully claustral, from what I've seen in real life and on the internet is that semi-caulostrial queens usually look almost just like the workers except for a few differences, like them being slightly larger, a slightly bigger gaster and thorax for their size and wing scars. And what I have noticed for fully claustral queens is that pretty much all of them dwarf their workers, had a noticably bigger gaster and thorax for their size, with wing scars, and some may even look completely different to their workers.

[SYUTEO]

Alright thanks, I also found what I believe to be a semi-caulostrial queen, not sure of the species or genus. Maybe Polyrhachis, because she has to spines, but I'm not sure of there are any species of Polyrhachis which are semi-caulostrial. I'll request an ID as soon as I get her into a test-tube.

I'm pretty sure all Polyrhachis are semi-claustral.

They looked to me like fully claustral, from what I've seen in real life and on the internet is that semi-caulostrial queens usually look almost just like the workers except for a few differences, like them being slightly larger, a slightly bigger gaster and thorax for their size and wing scars. And what I have noticed for fully claustral queens is that pretty much all of them dwarf their workers, had a noticably bigger gaster and thorax for their size, with wing scars, and some may even look completely different to their workers.

It's true, but Polyrhachis queens are almost the same size as their workers. Almost every time I see Polyrhachis I will check if it's a queen because in some species you need to get up close in order to tell.