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[Iddizy]

Location: Carmel Valley California
Date of collection 11/16 at around 12 P.m
Habitat:Carmel valley mountains
Length 8-9 mm
Red small white hairs appeared to be foraging some digging founding chambers others just ripping wings off caught 17
Pogonomyrmex sp.
Sorry for starting new thread old one wouldn’t let me add the photo ls I got closer and better photos to help with ID

https://imgur.com/gallery/DJO5cyR

[AntsBC]

Manica sp., either M. hunteri or M. invidia. A better shot of her node would help narrow it down. 

 

I'm going to stay away from American ants now. I seem to have lost my touch.

Edited by AntsBC, November 19 2018 - 5:40 PM.

[LC3]

That’s indeed Pogonomyrmex. According to the Queen Ant Spotting/Mating Chart only P. subdentatus has been recorded to fly during November.

[Guy_Fieri]

I personally think she looks more similar to pogonomyrmex salinus. The shape of her mandibles is very similar to p. salinus, and though that part is a bit blurry, the first node on her petiole also seems to have a more similar shape to p. salinus than it does to p. subdentatus. And they are both in the species group occidentalis so they probably have very similar nuptial flight schedules.

[YsTheAnt]

Pogonomyrmex subdentatus seems more likely since they fly later in the year.

Edited by YsTheAnt, December 18 2018 - 2:52 PM.