What species is this?

[SkeleAnt]

I made a separate post for this queen because she has workers now, and maybe they'll help with identification.

I caught her back in early June in a rock-based herb garden. I've included pictures of an female and male alate to help!

Light brown in sunlight, barely 5mm in length. I unfortunately don't have a better camera and she's made a little hollowed out spot in the cotton for her eggs so she's difficult to photograph.

Here is a princess:



A male, at least 1/2 her size:




Here is the queen and her workers. The picture isn't the best because they're so small, but they at least show the size difference between queen and worker ants:

[Parsasitequeenforsal]

Almost definitely camponatus.

[CreeperUniverse]

Almost definitely camponatus.

Once again, that's absolutely wrong. Those are most likely Nylanderia, not Camponotus.

[SkeleAnt]

Almost definitely camponatus.

Once again, that's absolutely wrong. Those are most likely Nylanderia, not Camponotus.

I should have included in my original post that these ants were found in southwest pennsylvania. It doesn't look like Nylanderia are native to the state with only a few instances of them being invasive species. Could she be a type of lasius ant?

[CreeperUniverse]

Almost definitely camponatus.

Once again, that's absolutely wrong. Those are most likely Nylanderia, not Camponotus.

I should have included in my original post that these ants were found in southwest pennsylvania. It doesn't look like Nylanderia are native to the state with only a few instances of them being invasive species. Could she be a type of lasius ant?

If you have Nylanderia flavipes, they're very common where they've invaded. Also, they look basically identical to most of the natives.

[SkeleAnt]

Just an update here, based on the behavior of the queen and her workers, I think I can say these are brachymyrmex depilis ants.