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[SegaGenitals]

We have these ants and would need some aid on what type of ants they are.

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[SegaGenitals]

Here are some more pictures

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[Zeiss]

Pinned at the top of the subforum is a guide on what information people need in order to help you get an accurate identification. I highly suggest you go read that and edit your original post to include it so you get a good answer. Just for genus, I would say Camponotus.

[PurdueEntomology]

Definitely Camponotus spp.  It would help to know where specifically they were collected.  Just throwing a few pictures out there without collection point data and nothing more than images would make identification, or minimally limiting it down to fewer possible species options almost impossible if not impossible, thus, physical location is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.  I looked at your profile and did not see your location as a guide.  

 

Oh, so here from my alma mater's website are guides to insect collection data, but it applies here on trying to assist in identifying images like the ones you have submitted on this forum:

 

https://extension.en...eling_specimens

 

From the link:  "To be of scientific value, each specimen must be accompanied by information including the location (county and state)..." I would include here country too on this forum.  Information such as desert, mesic forest, in a pine tree log etc. always helps too. 

 

Anyway, nice looking new colony.  

Edited by PurdueEntomology, November 29 2023 - 2:26 AM.

[SegaGenitals]

This queen was caught in Tucson Arizona on July 28th 2023.  She is 1cm long and the workers are 0.5 cm long

[bmb1bee]

Camponotus festinatus-group. Might be either festinatus, or pudorosus.

[PurdueEntomology]

Camponotus festinatus-group. Might be either festinatus, or pudorosus.

Is this diagnostic determination based on origin point or specific morphological characters or a possible combination of both?  

[gcsnelling]

I have no problem with a species group Id here, but to go any further with only minor workers in photographs is not a good course of action.