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San Francisco CA June 6 2021

Started By Swirlysnowflake , Jun 6 2021 12:40 PM

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#1 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted June 6 2021 - 12:40 PM

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1. Location of collection: San Francisco, CA
2. Date of collection: June 6
3. Habitat of collection: Dry area with woods. The alates were taking off from a rock.
4. Length: About 7mm for the queen, males were the same size
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture: Black with faint stripes on abdomen
6. Distinguishing characteristics: N/A
7. Anything else distinctive: These alates were with small workers and large ants (maybe majors? I’m not sure if they were even the same colony)
8. Nest description: Beneath/ near a rock
9. Nuptial flight time and date: June 6th, about 11:00 am

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Edited by Swirlysnowflake, June 6 2021 - 1:15 PM.

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#2 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted June 6 2021 - 12:52 PM

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Ignore the random fruit fly in the catch cup lol


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#3 Offline Manitobant - Posted June 6 2021 - 1:21 PM

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Liometopum maybe?
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#4 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted June 6 2021 - 1:28 PM

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Liometopum maybe?

L. luctuosum, perhaps? definitely not occidentale 


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#5 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted June 6 2021 - 1:30 PM

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Oh wait aren’t those night fliers though


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#6 Offline Crazycow - Posted June 6 2021 - 1:50 PM

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Kinda looks like tetramorium immigrans

#7 Offline M_Ants - Posted June 6 2021 - 1:51 PM

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Those are for sure lios.


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Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

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#8 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted June 6 2021 - 2:14 PM

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Those are for sure lios.

Oh thanks. Do they mate while flying most of the time?


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#9 Offline NickAnter - Posted June 6 2021 - 2:26 PM

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I do not think so. 7mm is very small for them. Lios are usually around 10-12mm. I'm not sure exactly what this is. Dorymyrmex insanus would be my guess.NVM

 

Could you have possibly measured 7/16"? That is about 12mm. And this does look like Liometopum in terms of body shape.


Edited by NickAnter, June 6 2021 - 2:32 PM.

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#10 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted June 6 2021 - 9:21 PM

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Can you remeasure? I think this might be Tapinoma sessile.


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#11 Offline M_Ants - Posted June 6 2021 - 9:23 PM

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Those are for sure lios.

Not so confident now lol. Didn't see size. 


Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

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#12 Offline ZTYguy - Posted June 6 2021 - 10:15 PM

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I second Ys, it looks like T. sessile. It can’t possibly be a Lio queen if that is a fruit fly next to it.


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#13 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted June 7 2021 - 5:14 AM

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Kinda looks like tetramorium immigrans

Not at all. Completely different body shape.

 

It does look like T. sessile to me as well.


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#14 Offline Chickalo - Posted June 7 2021 - 5:21 AM

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Kinda looks like tetramorium immigrans

It's most definitely not Tetramorium immigrans since there is no post-petiole visible.  Tetramorium is under the subfamily Myrmicinae, all of which have two post-petioles and is very visible.


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#15 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted June 7 2021 - 10:46 AM

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I remeasured and the queens are actually closer to 5.5 to 6 mm (sorry about the over measurement earlier!) Does that help with the ID?

I probably should have also gotten some pics of the workers and majors (?) too, but I didn’t 


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#16 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted June 7 2021 - 10:48 AM

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Also the queens might be poly/pleo because they group together and don’t attack each other at all


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#17 Offline AlexLebedev - Posted June 13 2021 - 7:23 PM

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1. Location of collection: San Francisco, CA
2. Date of collection: June 6
3. Habitat of collection: Dry area with woods. The alates were taking off from a rock.
4. Length: About 7mm for the queen, males were the same size
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture: Black with faint stripes on abdomen
6. Distinguishing characteristics: N/A
7. Anything else distinctive: These alates were with small workers and large ants (maybe majors? I’m not sure if they were even the same colony)
8. Nest description: Beneath/ near a rock
9. Nuptial flight time and date: June 6th, about 11:00 am

(The pictures are bad, sorry)

Liometopum or Camponotus


What i am keeping Brachymyrmex patagonicus 1 worker x5 tetramorium immigrans 10 workers x2 lasius crypticus 5 workers Pheidole californica 6 queens150~ workers 10-30 majors, Formica argentea 10~ W

 

 

What I've kept crematogaster sp pheidole californica camponotus vicinus high elev, dumetorum,laevigatus, prenolepis imparis, pogonomyrmex californicus and subnitidus and californicus, veromessor andrei, camponotus sayi, hypoponera opacior ,Liometopum occidentale solnopsis molesta group, solenopsis xyloni.

#18 Offline ZTYguy - Posted June 13 2021 - 7:58 PM

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Not a Camponotus or a liometopum. Way too small.


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#19 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted June 14 2021 - 3:34 AM

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1. Location of collection: San Francisco, CA
2. Date of collection: June 6
3. Habitat of collection: Dry area with woods. The alates were taking off from a rock.
4. Length: About 7mm for the queen, males were the same size
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture: Black with faint stripes on abdomen
6. Distinguishing characteristics: N/A
7. Anything else distinctive: These alates were with small workers and large ants (maybe majors? I’m not sure if they were even the same colony)
8. Nest description: Beneath/ near a rock
9. Nuptial flight time and date: June 6th, about 11:00 am

(The pictures are bad, sorry)

Liometopum or Camponotus

 

Please read the information before posting, and based on another ID attempt I saw you make, I would recommend just listening to what the more experienced keepers say and learn from them. That's what I do a lot of the time.


#20 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 14 2021 - 7:59 AM

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T sessile. They enjoy founding in large groups.

 

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