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Unidentified New Zealand Ant Colony

Started By AntsNewZealand , Jan 16 2018 6:46 PM

Best Answer Mettcollsuss , January 17 2018 - 4:33 AM

Huberia brounii.

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#1 Offline AntsNewZealand - Posted January 16 2018 - 6:46 PM

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Location-Manawatu/Wanganui

Queen Length-5mm Worker Length-2mm

Colour-Dark brown almost black with orange lines of gaster

Also found next to pheidole colony and a monomorium antarcticum colony

Photos of colony rn

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Queen photo's from when I first captured her

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Edited by AntsNewZealand, September 25 2018 - 11:00 PM.

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#2 Offline Penguin - Posted January 16 2018 - 7:56 PM

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I'm not sure if you have Crematogaster Spp. in New Zealand but to my untrained eye it looks like that genus.

Also, are those mites or water droplets on the queens gaster?

EDIT: Yeah, I wasn't sure if there was.. well the more you know

Edited by Penguin, January 17 2018 - 8:17 PM.

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#3 Offline AntsNewZealand - Posted January 16 2018 - 9:37 PM

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I'm not sure if you have Crematogaster Spp. in New Zealand but to my untrained eye it looks like that genus.

Also, are those mites or water droplets on the queens gaster?

There is no recorded species of crematogaster in nz and those are droplets of water on her gaster

#4 Offline T.C. - Posted January 17 2018 - 12:07 AM

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It's not crematogaster. I'm not familiar with species in your location, although I'm guessing Wasmannia sp.

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#5 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted January 17 2018 - 4:33 AM Best Answer

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Huberia brounii.

Edited by Mettcollsuss, January 17 2018 - 4:39 AM.

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#6 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted January 17 2018 - 1:22 PM

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Looks a bit more like monomorium sp.

Edited by MegaMyrmex, January 17 2018 - 1:22 PM.

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