2 queens need IDs

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AntDudeUSA
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2 queens need IDs

Post: # 39392Post AntDudeUSA
Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:53 pm

Hello I was lucky enough to catch two queens today but I need help identifying them.

this is the first queen she is small I'm not sure the length just roughly the length of my fingernail
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now the other queen I believe she is formica subscericea like another one of my queens but I just wanted to be sure
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x1 Camponotus Penslyvanicus
x1 Formica Subscerica
x1 Tetramorium Caespitum
x1 Solenopsis Invicta
x1 Pheidole sp
x1 Dorymyrmex Bureni

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Batspiderfish
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Re: 2 queens need IDs

Post: # 39397Post Batspiderfish
Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:19 pm

Dorymyrmex bureni and Formica sp.

F. subsericea is a good guess, but we would have to see how long her antennal scapes (the first, long segment of her antennae) are in comparison to the length of her head above the mandibles.
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AntDudeUSA
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Re: 2 queens need IDs

Post: # 39443Post AntDudeUSA
Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:43 pm

Batspiderfish wrote:
Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:19 pm
Dorymyrmex bureni and Formica sp.

F. subsericea is a good guess, but we would have to see how long her antennal scapes (the first, long segment of her antennae) are in comparison to the length of her head above the mandibles.
Thank you is the dorymyrmex fully claustral and is there anything special about that species as far as care goes
Keeper of
x1 Camponotus Penslyvanicus
x1 Formica Subscerica
x1 Tetramorium Caespitum
x1 Solenopsis Invicta
x1 Pheidole sp
x1 Dorymyrmex Bureni

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