ID Help
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ID Help
I found this one in November 16 around 4:30 PM in Land O Lakes FL (Near Tampa)there are stripes on the gaster, and she like the humid side, also, sorry that the photos are a little blurry.
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Re: ID Help
looks a bit like lasius
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Re: ID Help
Btw I live in subtropics for those who don’t live in Florida so I have some temperate and tropical ants also, the queen is about 5mm longSuperChampF350 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:35 amI found this one in November 16 around 4:30 PM in Land O Lakes FL (Near Tampa)there are stripes on the gaster, and she like the humid side, also, sorry that the photos are a little blurry.
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Also I suspect one of three genuses:Lasius, Camponotus, and ParatrechinaSuperChampF350 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 4:49 pmBtw I live in subtropics for those who don’t live in Florida so I have some temperate and tropical ants also, the queen is about 5mm longSuperChampF350 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:35 amI found this one in November 16 around 4:30 PM in Land O Lakes FL (Near Tampa)there are stripes on the gaster, and she like the humid side, also, sorry that the photos are a little blurry.
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do you have the length of the queen because the queen does not look big enough for a camponotus sp.
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oh sorry i can't believe i missed that
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Re: ID Help
Okay, this is definitely Formicidae, and I think that you are probably correct in saying that this is part of the tribe Lasiini; as it is too small for either Formica or Camponotus. However, I can't say whether this is Lasius, Nylanderia, Paratrechina, or something else. The stripes are a good sign, saying that your queen has probably mated, but that doesn't really help with the ID. To get even a genus level identification, you would have to count mandibular teeth, seta density, palpomeres, et cetera. For now, though, we can say that it is probably Lasius or Nylanderia. It is definitely in the size range for both of those too.
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Re: ID Help
Yah I’m working on figuring out macro shotsDontSquishTheAnt wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 9:52 pmOkay, this is definitely Formicidae, and I think that you are probably correct in saying that this is part of the tribe Lasiini; as it is too small for either Formica or Camponotus. However, I can't say whether this is Lasius, Nylanderia, Paratrechina, or something else. The stripes are a good sign, saying that your queen has probably mated, but that doesn't really help with the ID. To get even a genus level identification, you would have to count mandibular teeth, seta density, palpomeres, et cetera. For now, though, we can say that it is probably Lasius or Nylanderia. It is definitely in the size range for both of those too.
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the stripes could just be a species feature.
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