Would love some help with getting an ID for this queen!

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Ferret
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Location: Indiana

Would love some help with getting an ID for this queen!

Post: # 95751Post Ferret
Sat Aug 13, 2022 5:16 pm

Hello, I would appreciate any help identifying this queen. I found her while at work (she crawled onto me then moments later tore her wings off while on my hand!)

Size: 9.5mm
When: Between 4-6 PM, August 1st, 2022
Where: Central Indiana, USA. Suburban town. At a grocery store parking lot with grass fields across the road and wooded areas several hundred feet away.
Appearance: Black head and thorax with a somewhat lighter abdomen. The abdomen has about four yellowish stripes running around it. In the pictures the underside of the gaster looks a dimmed yellow.
Behaviour: In the test tube she is quite calm and hangs around the wet cotton. When I checked on her to get better photos she was "wagging" her abdomen for a little bit.

Additionally: I suspect her to be in the Lasius genus. She looks similar to the flavus and alienus pictured on Antweb but they seem a bit too light (to me anyway). She could also be Lasius niger or neoniger. I'm simply not experienced with ants (at all really) to be able to say exactly what.

Pictures:

Top-down view:
https://ibb.co/Wg7ys0c
https://ibb.co/RvgwwYQ

Right side view:
https://ibb.co/946SsyM
https://ibb.co/tC8gs0D
https://ibb.co/QJqNRbz
https://ibb.co/0c33bJz
https://ibb.co/QJFKmC6
https://ibb.co/QdZQXTD

Left side view:
https://ibb.co/FV50Rsy
https://ibb.co/Bf58qR5

Measuring (in inches):
https://ibb.co/2S7cjFK

Mandible view:
https://ibb.co/KqHcFHf

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Re: Would love some help with getting an ID for this queen!

Post: # 95761Post SolenopsisKeeper
Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:45 pm

Ferret wrote:
Sat Aug 13, 2022 5:16 pm
Hello, I would appreciate any help identifying this queen. I found her while at work (she crawled onto me then moments later tore her wings off while on my hand!)

Size: 9.5mm
When: Between 4-6 PM, August 1st, 2022
Where: Central Indiana, USA. Suburban town. At a grocery store parking lot with grass fields across the road and wooded areas several hundred feet away.
Appearance: Black head and thorax with a somewhat lighter abdomen. The abdomen has about four yellowish stripes running around it. In the pictures the underside of the gaster looks a dimmed yellow.
Behaviour: In the test tube she is quite calm and hangs around the wet cotton. When I checked on her to get better photos she was "wagging" her abdomen for a little bit.

Additionally: I suspect her to be in the Lasius genus. She looks similar to the flavus and alienus pictured on Antweb but they seem a bit too light (to me anyway). She could also be Lasius niger or neoniger. I'm simply not experienced with ants (at all really) to be able to say exactly what.

Pictures:

Top-down view:
https://ibb.co/Wg7ys0c
https://ibb.co/RvgwwYQ

Right side view:
https://ibb.co/946SsyM
https://ibb.co/tC8gs0D
https://ibb.co/QJqNRbz
https://ibb.co/0c33bJz
https://ibb.co/QJFKmC6
https://ibb.co/QdZQXTD

Left side view:
https://ibb.co/FV50Rsy
https://ibb.co/Bf58qR5

Measuring (in inches):
https://ibb.co/2S7cjFK

Mandible view:
https://ibb.co/KqHcFHf
Formica fusca group. Likely Formica subsericea
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