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Started By alex-barty , Jun 12 2020 3:39 AM

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#1 Offline alex-barty - Posted June 12 2020 - 3:39 AM

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Hey guys,this queen mated right in front of me and then I caught her.I've never found one this small and I need help Identifying her.I found her on the 11th of June in Greece in an urban area that has a few fields.She is 0.4 cm from head to gaster and 0.6 cm from head to the tip of her wings.I don't know of it helps but she was mating on the ground and was running really fast and frantically as it was happening.Once the male jumped off she moved half the speed and started cleaning her guster.She also has a brownish colour

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Edited by alex-barty, June 12 2020 - 3:41 AM.

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#2 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted June 12 2020 - 9:03 AM

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Looks like Lasius, but if it's the smallest one you've caught it might be something else. Maybe Plagiolepis?


Either way, it is fully claustral and not a social parasite.


Currently keeping:

 

Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#3 Offline alex-barty - Posted June 12 2020 - 10:32 AM

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Thank you very much:)
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