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Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia
Started By
Phoenix
, Jan 9 2018 10:16 AM
35 replies to this topic
#1 Offline - Posted January 9 2018 - 10:16 AM
#1. Location - Glued to a wall outside a bank, same place as usual.
#2. Date of Capture ~ X
#3. Habitat ~ Image - WARNING: Google Maps
#4. Length ~ Around 5 millimeters.
#5. Coloration / Hue / Pattern / Texture ~ X
#6. Distinguishing Characteristics ~ Incredibly Agile / Possibly Polygynous
#7. Anything Else Distinctive ~ X
#8. Nest Description ~ X
#9. Nuptial Flight [Time & Date] ~ X
#10. Images ~ V
Colonies
Camponotus cf. albosparsus — Journal
Camponotus cf. auriventris — Journal
Camponotus sp.
Colobopsis spp.
Crematogaster sp.
Nylanderia sp. — Journal
Pheidole cf. parva
Solenopsis geminata — Journal
#2 Offline - Posted January 9 2018 - 11:09 AM
MIGHT be Tapinoma, because of the body shape. otherwise they remind me of oddly shaped Anoplolepis queens.
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
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
#3 Offline - Posted January 9 2018 - 11:24 AM
Can we get some side view shots?
I'm thinking Nylanderia, maybe.
#5 Offline - Posted January 10 2018 - 12:09 PM
I'm slightly more sure that that's Tapinoma, maybe a close relative of Tapinoma sessile.
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
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
#6 Offline - Posted January 10 2018 - 8:38 PM
Looks like a strange color form of tapinoma melanocephalum, but I've seen enough tapinoma sessile queens to know for sure that that ant is a tapinoma sp.
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Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
#7 Offline - Posted January 12 2018 - 8:08 AM
I disagree. This does look dolichiderine to me, though. Possibly may be Technomyrmex.
Edited by Martialis, January 12 2018 - 8:11 AM.
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#8 Offline - Posted January 13 2018 - 6:46 AM
True true, but it is definitely a dolichoderine
Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
#9 Offline - Posted January 13 2018 - 6:51 AM
I disagree. This does look dolichiderine to me, though. Possibly may be Technomyrmex.
I believe that this is not Techomyrmex. In my experience with Technomyrmex sp. in Hawaii, I know that their thoraxes are smaller, legs shorter, and abdomens slightly larger.
Edited by Connectimyrmex, January 13 2018 - 6:53 AM.
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
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
#11 Offline - Posted January 16 2018 - 9:58 AM
Okay, now I officially have no idea what this species is. Looks like a cross between Tapinoma, Formica, and Nylanderia.
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
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 - Posted January 16 2018 - 10:27 AM
Solution: New ant species! Tapiforminylanda wilayahi.
YESSS
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
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
#14 Offline - Posted January 16 2018 - 4:01 PM
At first I thought that these are from the Dolichoderinae but now when I look again at these pictures I'm starting to think that they are actually Formicinae.
These look the most like Nylanderia but could be also unlikely Prenolepis, Euprenolepis, Lepisiota and others. Hard whit this huge diversity down there.
#15 Offline - Posted January 16 2018 - 5:44 PM
Wait, what? How is mine not the "Best Answer"?
#16 Offline - Posted January 16 2018 - 6:10 PM
Probably not Prenolepis.
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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
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
#17 Offline - Posted January 20 2018 - 10:43 AM
How is this colony doing now? I am very interested in them.
#18 Offline - Posted January 20 2018 - 9:23 PM
How is this colony doing now? I am very interested in them.
That colony actually belongs to a friend of mine.
I have never once gotten these queens pass their founding stages, only eggs at best.
Edited by Phoenix, January 20 2018 - 9:24 PM.
Colonies
Camponotus cf. albosparsus — Journal
Camponotus cf. auriventris — Journal
Camponotus sp.
Colobopsis spp.
Crematogaster sp.
Nylanderia sp. — Journal
Pheidole cf. parva
Solenopsis geminata — Journal
#19 Offline - Posted February 6 2018 - 5:59 AM
How is this colony doing now? I am very interested in them.
That colony actually belongs to a friend of mine.
I have never once gotten these queens pass their founding stages, only eggs at best.
Never mind.
Colonies
Camponotus cf. albosparsus — Journal
Camponotus cf. auriventris — Journal
Camponotus sp.
Colobopsis spp.
Crematogaster sp.
Nylanderia sp. — Journal
Pheidole cf. parva
Solenopsis geminata — Journal
#20 Offline - Posted February 6 2018 - 9:37 PM
Nice!
-1x Parasitic Formica Sp. Colony
-1x Pogonomymrex Californicus Colony
-1x Camponotus Hyatti Colony
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