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[CoolColJ]

1. East Lindfield bush trail, Sydney, Australia

2. 9/3/2018
3. clearings on side of bush trail
4. 5-8mm
5. red/orange, on the translucent side

8. Nest description - dirt hole, with a small mound of dirt outside, with what looks like seed husks

 

 

bad video from my phone

 

 

 

The workers are about 5-8mm or so, so fairly big, but thin looking. They move kinda slow, but seem to alarm real easy when you approach then nest site.

 

There are tons of these ant nest in the area, and they had been digging a fair bit with them all having workers dropping dirt outside, with large piles of it.

Obviously not nocturnal, even though they look a bit Camponotus type size.

 

I captured one, and it's in a test tube setup, and just chilling on the water side cotton, cleaning itself

closeup pic montage - more red/orange outside, on the translucent side, but blacker looking indoors.

I used a flash here, so it looks more like it does outside.

 

This one was about 5-6mm, a bit smaller and thinner than the Camponotus Aeneopilosus workers I have here.

 

click to enlarge

Edited by CoolColJ, March 8 2018 - 2:24 PM.

[ZllGGY]

1. East Lindfield bush trail, Sydney, Australia

2. 9/3/2018
3. clearings on side of bush trail
4. 5-8mm
5. red/orange, on the translucent side

8. Nest description - dirt hole, with a small mound of dirt outside, with what looks like seed husks

 

 

bad video from my phone

 

 

 

The workers are about 5-8mm or so, so fairly big, but thin looking. They move kinda slow, but seem to alarm real easy when you approach then nest site.

 

There are tons of these ant nest in the area, and they had been digging a fair bit with them all having workers dropping dirt outside, with large piles of it.

Obviously not nocturnal, even though they look a bit Camponotus type size.

 

I captured one, and it's in a test tube setup, and just chilling on the water side cotton, cleaning itself

closeup pic montage - more red/orange outside, on the translucent side, but blacker looking indoors.

I used a flash here, so it looks more like it does outside.

 

This one was about 5-6mm, a bit smaller and thinner than the Camponotus Aeneopilosus workers I have here.

 

 

id say get little more well lit picture that can show the details on its head?

[Mettcollsuss]

Aphaenogaster sp. 

 

There are only three Aphaenogaster species in your area, so narrowing it down won't be too hard to do.

Edited by Mettcollsuss, March 8 2018 - 2:44 PM.

[ZllGGY]

Aphaenogaster sp.

nice. i was trying to go through ant web to help but i couldn't narrow it down as apparently his area has a pretty decent variety of ant species

[CoolColJ]

Thanks I sorta suspected it might be an Aphaenogaster after I took the photos of the worker which are was not apparent just looking them with your own eye

 

That turned down gastor looks like these http://www.antwiki.o...aster_longiceps

 

http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/a/a2/Shattuck_C7957-1%2C_Aphaenogaster_longiceps%2C_Broulee%2C_NSW-web.jpg

 

But a different species I think, since Longiceps have longer legs and are more nocturnal

 

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I put it into one of my outworlds and it settled on the cotton wool of my water feed test tube.... that's probably more water than she has seen in a while

While my 2 queenless Camponotus Aeneopilosus workers and brood, are in the Atom C in the same outworld

Edited by CoolColJ, March 8 2018 - 3:55 PM.