Hi, I'm new here. I'm from Singapore, south-east Asia country. Most queens found here are tropics ants, and I don't really know what are their species. So I do hope you all guys may be able to help me out. 
1. I guess they are Camponotus sp. queen is roughly 1cm in length. And I have six queens in together, all have at least 2-3 nanitics. Caught them around middle of May.
2. Also a Camponotus sp too, I guess, but much larger in size, 1.5cm long. Just caught her few days ago.
3. I still have no idea what species this is, she has a spinning top shape at the end of abdomen in black while other parts of body are brownish red. 0.8cm in length. One thing that confuse me is that her eggs are round in shape, how normal is that? She ate her first batch of eggs, those are her second batch. Caught her first week of May.
4. Similar to 3, but smaller, 0.5cm. Eggs are found laying all round the test tube, maybe not fertilized? Caught her last week. Found another one last night, eggs are spotted the next day, scattering around the test tube.
5. Super small, super fun to watch colony. Current has 10 workers. Queen 0.5cm, workers 0.1-0.2cm. Took her less then a month to have her first nanitics. Found her on a pathway under my flat last month. Cool thing about them is, whenever I feed them honey, they seem to take turns to drink it, while some will stay and look after their youngs. My best guess is also another Camponotus sp.
All the ants above mention are found around my area, I live in the center part of Singapore. Usually found them at night, after a heavy rain in the afternoon. By the way, spotted few trap-jaw as well and their Nuptial flight are coming soon, super excited about it. 
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