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Ant ID request, central Oregon, AUG 11 2016

Started By Goldsystem , Aug 11 2016 4:25 PM

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#1 Offline Goldsystem - Posted August 11 2016 - 4:25 PM

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Found this queen under a rock with no eggs.
Length:6mm
Description: she's very shiny and very very dark orange (almost black) with a orange and black center (looks like she has a visible stinger but it could just be hair)
No nest description

Pictures:

Edited by Goldsystem, August 11 2016 - 4:49 PM.

#2 Offline kellakk - Posted August 11 2016 - 4:32 PM

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Check out Tetramorium sp.E, that may be what you have.

Current Species:
Camponotus fragilis

Novomessor cockerelli

Pogonomyrmex montanus

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Manica bradleyi

#3 Offline Goldsystem - Posted August 11 2016 - 4:52 PM

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I don't think she is a tetramorium Queen or if she is she Isn't sp. E I have some tetramorium queens already and this queen doesn't look like them

#4 Offline Saftron - Posted August 11 2016 - 4:57 PM

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Crematogaster sp.?

#5 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted August 11 2016 - 5:31 PM

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Crematogaster coarctata seems right to me.

Could possibly try for closer pictures or with better lighting?

Edited by Batspiderfish, August 11 2016 - 5:33 PM.

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