What's the name of this Ant ?

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Callow Ant Posts: 1 04/19/2009 8:00 AM	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		#1	[url]	[-]
TAFMF Addict Posts: 3667 04/19/2009 9:20 AM	Would very likely be Tapinoma melanocephalum. MrILoveTheAnt's Blog & Ant Chat
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Henchant Posts: 1179 04/19/2009 9:29 AM Loyal Worker Ant	I first thought of a female velvet ant. If I had a wish I'd wish to be an ant.
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Posts: 18808 04/19/2009 12:07 PM Borg Ant, Your Overlord	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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Posts: 3505 04/19/2009 2:47 PM Soldier Ant and Doc.	Certainly not Tapinoma, read big. T. melanocephalum is quite a small ant. However we do most certainly need more information. Light at the end of the tunnel proudly sponsored by BNSF.
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Loyal Worker Ant Posts: 667 04/19/2009 2:58 PM U.S. Army VeterANT	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. H
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Posts: 18808 04/19/2009 3:19 PM Borg Ant, Your Overlord	Harpegnathos wrote: 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. 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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