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Texas Army Ants (?)

Started By kellakk , Oct 30 2015 11:37 PM

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#1 Offline kellakk - Posted October 30 2015 - 11:37 PM

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Check out these ants that someone found in Texas and posted on another forum. He thinks they're Labidus coecus.

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#2 Offline dermy - Posted October 31 2015 - 1:11 AM

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Whoa! Those look so cool! I love the size of the queen

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#3 Offline gcsnelling - Posted October 31 2015 - 1:58 AM

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As I posted there, hard to be sure of the ID based on those photos, but it is a quite possible they are L. coecus.

#4 Offline TheAnswerIsTheLogic - Posted October 31 2015 - 6:44 AM

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The queen is soo huge haha

#5 Offline klawfran3 - Posted October 31 2015 - 6:53 AM

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I know right? When I saw that picture for the first time I thought the queen was an oblong pebble! My jaw dropped when I realized it was her gaster haha.

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#6 Online dspdrew - Posted October 31 2015 - 7:42 AM

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Wow that is cool!

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#7 Offline Alza - Posted October 31 2015 - 8:44 AM

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It is labidus.

#8 Offline gcsnelling - Posted October 31 2015 - 10:07 AM

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It is labidus.

While I do not disagree with your comment I am curious as to how you come to that conclusion.

#9 Offline James C. Trager - Posted November 3 2015 - 4:38 AM

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The head shape of the major workers, petiole/ postpetiole characters of the workers, and the head and petiole shapes of the queen, combined with the location, pretty much clinch this as L. coecus, woudln't you say, gcsnelling?