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Tetraponera? Bandung, 03/19/18

Started By Dnail , Mar 19 2018 6:04 AM

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#1 Offline Dnail - Posted March 19 2018 - 6:04 AM

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1. Location (on a map) of collection: bandung, indonesia

2. Date of collection: 03/18/18
3. Habitat of collection: forest
4. Length (from head to gaster): around 5 mm
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: black, orange antena
6. Distinguishing characteristics: 2 small round nodule
7. Distinguishing behavior: 
8. Nest description: 

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my guess its tetraponera but idk its sp. idk it is queen or drone. even at 1st I'm not sure is it an ant. 

Edited by Dnail, March 19 2018 - 6:05 AM.

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Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

#2 Offline ZllGGY - Posted March 19 2018 - 6:53 AM

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1. Location (on a map) of collection: bandung, indonesia

2. Date of collection: 03/18/18
3. Habitat of collection: forest
4. Length (from head to gaster): around 5 mm
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: black, orange antena
6. Distinguishing characteristics: 2 small round nodule
7. Distinguishing behavior: 
8. Nest description: 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
my guess its tetraponera but idk its sp. idk it is queen or drone. even at 1st I'm not sure is it an ant. 

 

definitely a queen ant but i can't help you with the ID


Colonies:

 

Founding:

Camponotus cf. Modoc

Camponotus cf. Herculeanus

 

Dream Ants:

 

Stenamma Diecki

Solenopsis Molesta

Manica Invidia

Camponotus Herculeanus

Lasius Latipes

Dorymyrmex Pyramicus

Tapinoma Sessile

#3 Offline Phoenix - Posted March 19 2018 - 7:14 AM

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Yep, Tetraponera sp.


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Colonies

Camponotus cf. albosparsus — Journal

Camponotus cf. auriventris — Journal
Camponotus sp.
Colobopsis spp.
Crematogaster sp.
Nylanderia sp. — Journal
Pheidole cf. parva
Solenopsis geminata — Journal
 

#4 Offline Dnail - Posted March 19 2018 - 7:35 AM

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Yep, Tetraponera sp.

is she semi claustral?


Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

#5 Offline Phoenix - Posted March 19 2018 - 7:43 AM

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Yep, Tetraponera sp.

 

is she semi claustral?

 

Yep, be careful while feeding her though, their stings pack quite a punch.


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Camponotus cf. albosparsus — Journal

Camponotus cf. auriventris — Journal
Camponotus sp.
Colobopsis spp.
Crematogaster sp.
Nylanderia sp. — Journal
Pheidole cf. parva
Solenopsis geminata — Journal
 

#6 Offline Dnail - Posted March 19 2018 - 8:08 AM

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Yep, Tetraponera sp.

 

is she semi claustral?

 

Yep, be careful while feeding her though, their stings pack quite a punch.

i will, thanks


Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

#7 Offline Dnail - Posted March 22 2018 - 5:24 AM

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btw what is this girl diet? honey and little insect enough?


Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

#8 Offline Martialis - Posted March 22 2018 - 11:08 AM

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btw what is this girl diet? honey and little insect enough?

Not even honey yet. Feed her small, soft-bodied arthropods.


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#9 Offline Dnail - Posted March 22 2018 - 4:54 PM

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btw what is this girl diet? honey and little insect enough?

Not even honey yet. Feed her small, soft-bodied arthropods.

 

i tried to give her fruit fly, it seen she ignoring it


Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

#10 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted March 23 2018 - 1:43 PM

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With Pseudomyrmex (a similar genus), I would start out with honey. Continue this diet for a couple days. Give her a drinking straw (with a dampened cotton ball at one end that you should repeatedly moisten) to nest in. After she settles in the straw, put the straw in an outworld with a few live termites or dead small crickets.


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#11 Offline Dnail - Posted March 23 2018 - 5:03 PM

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With Pseudomyrmex (a similar genus), I would start out with honey. Continue this diet for a couple days. Give her a drinking straw (with a dampened cotton ball at one end that you should repeatedly moisten) to nest in. After she settles in the straw, put the straw in an outworld with a few live termites or dead small crickets.

test tube too big?


Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

#12 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted March 24 2018 - 11:10 AM

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Twig nesting ants like very thin spaces, so I'd say that the average test tube is way too wide.

 

(the diameter of the nest should be 1/2 the length of the queen.


Edited by Connectimyrmex, March 24 2018 - 11:11 AM.

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Hawaiiant (Ben)

Keeper of
Miniature Labradoodle
Baby Wolf Spider
Mud Dauber wasp larvae
Ochetellus Glaber
Solenopsis Geminata
Brachymyrmex Obscurior
Cardiocondyla Emeryi
Tetramorium Bicarinatum
Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
Technomyrmex Difficilis
Pheidole Megacephala
Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
Day Gecko
Small Fat Centipede
Endemic Lacewing larva
Vernal Pool shrimps

#13 Offline Dnail - Posted March 27 2018 - 7:16 PM

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Twig nesting ants like very thin spaces, so I'd say that the average test tube is way too wide.

 

(the diameter of the nest should be 1/2 the length of the queen.

roger, i will put straw at her test tube


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Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

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