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[firehalk]

Please help me find the species of this queen ant I found under a rock!

1. Location of collection: (San Antonio, Texas) 

2. Date of collection (4,6,15)
3. Habitat of collection (under a rock with shrubs around it.)
4. Length ( 5 mil.)
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture (orangish yellow gaster and the rest is black)
6. Distinguishing characteristics: (just the orange gaster)
 

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Edited by firehalk, April 6 2015 - 5:23 PM.

[AntTeen804]

Please post a picture of the queen

[firehalk]

Please post a picture of the queen

I did sorry i did it wrong the first time

[cpman]

Are you sure that it is only 5 mm long? There is a large Camponotus around here with identical looks, but the queens are closer to 15 mm.

[AntTeen804]

Looks like a camponotus consobrinus queen

[AntTeen804]

On wiki it says camponotus consobrinus range from 7-15 mm

[firehalk]

Are you sure that it is only 5 mm long? There is a large Camponotus around here with identical looks, but the queens are closer to 15 mm.

again sorry i was looking at the wrong side you are right it is about 18 mm long, i think its a bit shorter it was moving when i measured it

thanks for your help!

On wiki it says camponotus consobrinus range from 7-15 mm

ok thank you!

Edited by firehalk, April 6 2015 - 5:32 PM.

[dspdrew]

5mm I was going to ask you if you used a ruler when you measured it, but it looks like we already got that sorted out. Nice looking queen.

[cpman]

I highly doubt that it is Camponotus consobrinus. That species does not occur here in Texas. My guess would be C. sansabeanus, the queens of that species look very similar. This same species that you have flew here two days ago.

Edited by cpman, April 6 2015 - 5:42 PM.

[dspdrew]

So you're pretty sure that was C. sansabeanus that flew? I need to add that to the chart.

[cpman]

I'm pretty sure that those were C. sansabeanus. I became most confident in the ID of these queens after I saw this last year.

[firehalk]

I like how they flew so early in the year

[James C. Trager]

Might be Camponotus ocreatus. (Certianly not C. consobrinus, an Australian species.)

[jjjakes]

Hey I live in San Antonio too, would it be too late now to find queens from this flight? I think it was saturday that it occurred. I went searching for a bit and all I found under rocks where big C. sansabeanus colonies.  I was able to catch one C. sansabeanus queen on the day of the flight but I am thinking she is not fertilized because all she has done is sit in her container with her wings still on. 

 

Edit: Nevermind! I changed the places I was looking for them and found 6 queens in 20 mins of flipping rocks.  

Edited by jjjakes, April 8 2015 - 4:53 PM.

[cpman]

Might be Camponotus ocreatus.

C. ocreatus occurs in San Antonio?!

My one map only has records of this species from far west Texas.

I'd be really interested to know exactly where they occur, as one of my current queens is quite similar to this.

Edited by cpman, April 8 2015 - 5:12 PM.