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[ECamp0s]

This past two weeks(from 22/09/24 to 05/10/24) , rains come to my region but temperature is still high(25ºcelsius), i caught up some ants wandering around and caught what i think it has a nuptial flight. i will try to manage the description with the pictures.

every ant has caught in my home region, suburban area next to my house, i have only a small stream of water that makes, temperature around 25º, humidity around 60%.

first i have what i think has a nuptial flight, i caught 7 ants all seem the same especie, not really sure if they are queens, but i caught because all of them are around 5mm, 6mm lenght. they have a hairy torso, full black color, gaster is not perfectly round. (pics 1 and 2)

for my second id i have a queen that lost her wings today, the head and torso are more on the red color, the gaster is more darken color, 5mm length, gaster is on the round shape (pic 3)

The third one is smaller in size (3mm or 4mm) i caught her on the ground wandering around, got a full black color on head and torso, the gaster is black but looks to that has some stripes pattern.(pic 4 and 5)

I don´t see stingers on any of them.

Thanks in advance (sorry for bad english)

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Edited by ECamp0s, October 6 2024 - 3:26 AM.

[1tsm3jack]

The first 5 are definitely males, the second one is some species of Camponotus, I believe C. lateralis, and the 3rd is Monomorium carbonarium.

[ANTdrew]

The second queen is Crematogaster, probably scutellaris.

[1tsm3jack]

The second queen is Crematogaster, probably scutellaris.

Dang I thought it was Crematogaster, but from the bottom and then the size of it in the picture I thought it was Camponotus. 

[Mettcollsuss]

First two images are Messor males, third and last images are Crematogaster scutellaris, and the fourth image is Brachymyrmex patagonicus or Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi.

[ECamp0s]

First two images are Messor males, third and last images are Crematogaster scutellaris, and the fourth image is Brachymyrmex patagonicus or Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi.

want to give some more pics so you can check them out i will them on this post

[ECamp0s]

the first 2 photos are the same has the forth above, this time i use flash to take the pic. also notice that this shinny silver ant queen is small is size compare to crematogaster

the third photo is the last one above. 

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Edited by ECamp0s, October 10 2024 - 1:07 PM.