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[Gregory2455]

1. Location of collection: Saved from drowning in a pool.
2. Date of collection: 8/02/2014
3. Habitat of collection: Sub-Urban
4. Length (from head to gaster): 7mm.
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: Black with thin whitish stripes on gaster.

 

 

 

Edited by Gregory2455, August 12 2014 - 12:33 AM.

[dspdrew]

I think this might be Dorymyrmex insanus.

[Gregory2455]

I have another one of these exact looking ones which is about 2mm smaller, did you say that there is a large variation in these queens? You mentioned one a lot larger you caught in the desert some time back.

[Gregory2455]

I will call it Dorymyrmex insanus for now, until I can look closer at it.

[dspdrew]

Are its mandibles redish in color?

[Gregory2455]

A little bit.

[Gregory2455]

I actually want to call that so called smaller one, one of your Brachyrmex sp.1. Size, shape, look, it just about all matches up.

[dspdrew]

Yeah it does look like Brachymyrmex actually. The size difference between the two can be quite small.

[Gregory2455]

The larger one has reddish mandibles, and the smaller one does not, and it also looks a bit different. I will call the larger one Dorymyrmex insanus and the smaller one a Brachymyrmex sp. I will definitely be able to ID them once they get workers.