Can You ID my first queen?

[Bierschneeman]

good heavy rain today, so i decided to take my first ant queen search. not 5 mins in, do i find this Ant... im pretty sure it is a queen, I think it looks like these red and black ants with majors a block away.

shown is a transferred millimeter ruler. id guess around 7mm. found today, in Louisiana.
is there anything else you need for an ID?

thank you in advance.

[Bierschneeman]

another view


dont worry i fixed the two piece cotton balls by tearing them up and weaving them into a big one.

[Silver]

That looks like a Lasius Niger(Black Garden Ant), or it may be a Tetramorium caespitum(Pavement Ant). It is hard to be sure, tho that is probably a L.Niger. It looks just like mine, and mine acts like a L.Niger.

Hope that helps.

[Bierschneeman]

so i have been trying to be a good ant keeper, i have been trying to research how and what.a friend of mine made a suggestion of what. so i began looking.

so after looking at alexander wilds photos, and zoom into mine i see mine has a hairy abdomen, and two nodules on its distinguished petioles. this reminds me of his photos of solenopsis ( my friends suggestion)

but i still have no clue what im doing with regards to identification.

thats three potential IDs.
any others, or any confitmations ?

[LearningAntz]

This certainly isn’t Lasius or Tetramorium.

[Silver]

Oh, ok. I am not that experienced so you are probably right.

[BowzerSlayer]

This certainly isn’t Lasius or Tetramorium.

I have two identical queens that I'm fairly certain are Tetramorium, and they're a bit smaller, blacker, and flatter than the ant in these pics. Imo, the pics look like a Solenopsis, but im pretty new to ant keeping myself having just started this summer. Hope this helped!

[AntsDakota]

I'm thinking Pheidole or Solenopsis.