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What's the name of this Ant ? |
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Hi to everyone while walking outside i saw on the ground a kinda big black ant with an white abdomen, does anyone know which type it is ?
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MrILoveTheAnts |
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Would very likely be Tapinoma melanocephalum.
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Ant Catcher11 |
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I first thought of a female velvet ant.
If I had a wish I'd wish to be an ant.
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antdude |
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Anter: Hello and welcome to the forum. We need more information as shown in http://antfarm.yuku.com/topic/7397
... Also, I moved your forum thread to anting forum.
Quote of the Week: "Every ruler sleeps on an anthill." --Afghani. Ant/AntDude @ The Ant Farm (Personal Web Site), Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL), and The Ant Farm and Myrmecology Forum.
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Mrmacophyl |
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Certainly not Tapinoma, read big. T. melanocephalum is quite a small ant. However we do most certainly need more information.
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Harpegnathos |
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Tapinoma melanocephalum is dark with a whitish abdomen (gaster) but is a very small ant. Where did you see your kinda big ant (country,
state, region)? If in the USA, it could a so-called Velvet Ant as Ant Catcher11 suggests (check Google images of Dasymutilla
sackenii), but if I'd guess it is a carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus (again, check Google images), which is distinguished from other
USA carpenter ants by the whitish to yellowish hair on its gaster, which, if the lighting is right, can make the gaster look white (or yellow). The hair is
thicker and the effect is more pronounced on certain Camponotus species living in regions of the world other than the USA.
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antdude |
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Harpegnathos wrote:http://images.google.com/...phalum&imgtype=photo for photographs.
Quote of the Week: "Every ruler sleeps on an anthill." --Afghani. Ant/AntDude @ The Ant Farm (Personal Web Site), Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL), and The Ant Farm and Myrmecology Forum.
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