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2 Ant Queen ID's from QLD Australia

Started By PaigeX , Nov 5 2021 12:09 AM
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Best Answer Manitobant , November 5 2021 - 6:34 AM

Ill make a guess and say its ochetellus glaber due to superficial similarities, but i may be wrong. Go to the full post


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#1 Offline PaigeX - Posted November 5 2021 - 12:09 AM

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Hey all! I recently got into ant keeping and need some help identifying some Queen ants I found around my house.

 

1. Location of collection: CURRA, Queensland, Australia
2. Date of collection: Over the month of October.
3. Habitat of collection: Open woodlands.
4. Length (from head to gaster): Size are all in pictures next to a mm ruler.
5. Colour, hue, pattern and texture: Both black in colour and seem to be trail ant species. One is very small in size.

 

 

This is a colony I had to remove from a fold-up table. I was able to save the queen and some brood with workers. Its a small species of ant.

smaller queen 1.JPG

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Other one seems to be a larger species of it. More common around here. Found her running around on the ground in the middle of the day. She has already laid some eggs in the test tube.

larger black queen.JPG

 

 

Any help is appreciated, Thank you <3


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#2 Offline antsinvirgina - Posted November 5 2021 - 4:29 AM

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I am not good at this but I think it might be sugar ants


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#3 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted November 5 2021 - 4:54 AM

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Both are what I suspect to be Iridomyrmex species. I may be wrong.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#4 Offline PaigeX - Posted November 5 2021 - 5:20 AM

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I have been researching and do think the larger one is Irdomyrmex Bicknelli as its the most common black ant in Australia. Pictures match ones on internet.

However the smaller one I have yet to find. I've seen them many times and they are very cute.


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#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted November 5 2021 - 5:43 AM

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The second one is definitely iridomyrmex. Try to get better pictures of the first one, especially of the queen, as I cannot ID with the poor photo quality.
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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/

#6 Offline PaigeX - Posted November 5 2021 - 5:55 AM

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Yea that was the best i could get. My phone or ipod just can't get a good picture. Ill see what else i can do.

 

The Queen looks identical in every way to the larger queen. Its just way smaller in size. she's about 4-5mm in size.


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#7 Offline Manitobant - Posted November 5 2021 - 6:34 AM   Best Answer

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Ill make a guess and say its ochetellus glaber due to superficial similarities, but i may be wrong.
My journals:

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/

#8 Offline PaigeX - Posted November 5 2021 - 8:01 AM

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Ill make a guess and say its ochetellus glaber due to superficial similarities, but i may be wrong.

Thank you for that! I searched the name and it looks like that's it. Ill do some more research but I think you got it! Thank you for everyone's help <3


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