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[UrsusAnt]

In my area i know:

 

Formica rufa

Formica aquilonia

Formica truncorum

Leptothorax acervorum.

[Ants_Texas]

Solenopsis molesta is polygynous.

[Mdrogun]

As far as I'm aware, Lasius flavus is pleometrotic, not polygynous.

[LC3]

Myrmica incompleta are polygynous. There's a super colony here that spans for a few kilometers along the coast of the island.

 

the Lasius alienus colonies here produce a gynotype that almost resembles a parasitic queen like L.umbratus. These smaller queens, roughly half the size of the normal type seem to get along fine with each other even after workers are founded.

Edited by LC3, July 2 2017 - 2:20 AM.

[Leo]

cerapachys

[Mettcollsuss]

• Myrmica rubra
• Prenolepis imparis
• possibly Camponotus vicinus
• Formca fusca and formica subsericea are pleomatroic and can sometimes be polygynous through oligogyny
• Pheidole spp.
• Solenopsis invicta
• Solenopsis molesta
• possibly solenopsis xyloni
• possibly temnothorax curvispinosus

[Mettcollsuss]

Solenopsis molesta. I found a wild colony with at least two queens.

[Mettcollsuss]

Paratrechina longicornis, linepithema humile, anoplolepis gracillipes, and vollenhovia emeryi.

[Ilija Mitrevski]

Messor structor

[StopSpazzing]

All of the ones I found in this topic have been added to wiki.

[Gerard250]

Any Messor species?? I got 3 messor capitatus and i wantet to know if i could put them together 🤔
Any Messor species?? I got 3 messor capitatus and i wanted to know if i could put them together 🤔
Any Messor species?? I got 3 messor capitatus and i wanted to know if i could put them together 🤔

[Hunter]

you should add Tetramorium caespitum my colony has 12 queens

Any Messor species?? I got 3 messor capitatus and i wantet to know if i could put them together
Any Messor species?? I got 3 messor capitatus and i wanted to know if i could put them together
Any Messor species?? I got 3 messor capitatus and i wanted to know if i could put them together

i don't think they can

[Derpy]

Are all pheidole species, polygynous? The ones that I have in my area are pheidole California, xerophila, and gilvescens.

[Phoenix]

Solenopsis Geminata & Pheidole Parva.

[nurbs]

Had a very large sample of C. vicinus this year, in both the red and black variety (about 20 each), all collected from the eastern sierras in Northern California.

 

Put the reds and blacks in a large bin together with test tube setups, and the reds and blacks got together but never mixed. Many of the black variety were aggressive towards one another. Fast forward many months later, and the C. vicinus polygyonous red variety are doing great, whereas the black variety killed the other queen, or killed each other.

 

Myrmecologists classify C. vicinus into one species, but their coloring almost makes me think they are different in other ways. This would make for an interesting masters or PhD thesis.

 

Edited by nurbs, November 6 2017 - 5:27 PM.

[Derpy]

So only pheidole parva is polygynous? I thought almost all species of pheidole were polygynous?!