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Camponotus discolor vs. C decipiens

Started By Tai_pan1 , Jun 3 2022 8:33 AM

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#1 Offline Tai_pan1 - Posted June 3 2022 - 8:33 AM

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Can anyone give me a quick primer on the differences between the two? To my untrained, new ant keeper eyes, they look the same.

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#2 Offline antsinvirgina - Posted June 3 2022 - 8:36 AM

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Campontus decipiens are a little bit bigger than Camponotus discolor

I can see why they look the same

Edited by antsinvirgina, June 3 2022 - 8:41 AM.

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#3 Offline aznphenom - Posted June 3 2022 - 8:36 AM

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TLDR: Discolor has "conspicuous suberect to erect hairs on the malar area" (Joe A. MacGown), whereas decipiens does not

Edited by aznphenom, June 3 2022 - 8:38 AM.

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Keeps: Camponotus, Tetra

Wants (Please reach out if you have them for sale if you’re in the US): Acromyrmex Sp., Atta Sp., Cephalotes Sp., Myrmecocystus Sp (Prefer Mexicanus), Odontomachus Sp. (Prefer Desertorum), Pachycondyla Sp., Pheidole Sp (Prefer Rhea. The bigger the better. Not the tiny bicarinata), Pogonomyrmex Sp (Prefer Badius)., Pseudomyrmex Sp. (Prefer the cute yellow ones)

#4 Offline ZTYguy - Posted June 3 2022 - 10:39 AM

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Also one grows significantly larger colonies than the other. You can look at AntsEmporium.com and there is a brief description about the two species.

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#5 Offline NickAnter - Posted June 3 2022 - 3:38 PM

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Camponotus decipiens has no malar hairs.

C. discolor does.

Along with the colony size mentioned, that's about it.

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).