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Help ID queen ant I found

Started By KingPrawn35 , Jun 23 2023 3:14 PM

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#1 Offline KingPrawn35 - Posted June 23 2023 - 3:14 PM

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Found in the middle of Georgia (state)

Reddish/brown head and thorax. with a yellow gaster

Doesn’t look like the normal fire ants as their gasters are black and this queen is a little bigger than them.

Sorry for the bad quality of the photos, but thanks for any help

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#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 23 2023 - 4:00 PM

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Looks like Aphaenogaster to me.

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#3 Offline Aaron567 - Posted June 24 2023 - 6:20 AM

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Aphaenogaster, maybe lamellidens.

#4 Offline Artisan_Ants - Posted January 16 2024 - 3:43 PM

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Aphenogaster ashmeadi. Not fully sure, but color looks about the same.

Keeping:

3x - S. molesta (colonies and single queen) 1x - C. nearcticus (founding but no eggs) (y) New!

1x - C. chromaiodes (colony) 1x - C. subbarbatus (founding)

1x - F. subsericea (founding) 1x - T. sessile (mega colony)

3x - P. imparis (colonies)

2x - L. neoniger (founding)

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#5 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted January 16 2024 - 3:48 PM

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Aphenogaster ashmeadi. Not fully sure, but color looks about the same.

Never ever ID ants using colour.

Edited by ANTS_KL, January 16 2024 - 3:49 PM.

Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus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.

#6 Offline ANTdrew - Posted January 16 2024 - 4:41 PM

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Also, almost none of the people who posted these old ID threads will ever see them again. Not much point in reviving them seven months later. That’s an eternity ago on a forum like this.