Timeline for Which ant/wasp species is that?
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| Dec 2, 2020 at 4:58 | history | bounty ended | Rodrigo | ||
| Nov 28, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Astrid_Redfern | To clarify: I currently think it is almost certainly a winged male ant (drone). | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 16:43 | comment | added | Astrid_Redfern | @PolypipeWrangler It might be a male ant. "Male ants ... can be identified by their smaller heads and longer antennae." (naturalresources.sa.gov.au/files/sharedassets/…). Or "males ... have smaller heads with bigger eyes and straighter antennae." (askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/ant-anatomy). According to antark.net/ant-life/the-ant-family/drone-alate-ant "Drones ... look more like wasps than ants." See the silhouette-style pictures at antark.net/ant-life/the-ant-family . | |
| Nov 27, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | Polypipe Wrangler | The head and jaws seem too small and weak to be an ant. The heads of ants are usually more shiny also. | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 20:58 | comment | added | Astrid_Redfern | The "elbows" on male Crematogaster ants are even shorter - see cle.fourmis.free.fr/male-crematogaster-2.html and bugguide.net/node/view/1327317/bgimage | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 20:31 | comment | added | Astrid_Redfern | Could be some other winged male ant of the Monomorium genus? | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 20:22 | comment | added | Astrid_Redfern | There's a similar short "elbow" and eleven-segment-thereafter antenna on this Dacatria templaris winged male: antwiki.org/wiki/… . Though otherwise that's even less like OP's photo. | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | Astrid_Redfern | Regarding the very short elbow - take a look at the very short "elbow" on the antennae of the male Monomorium minimum in this picture: antwiki.org/wiki/… . Then look closely at the antennae on OP's mystery specimen - the antenna that's further away does appear to have a noticeable joint of some sort near the head. Perhaps the angle of the shot obscures such a joint on the closer antenna too. Anyway, I think these could be ant antennae, though not that species. | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 18:05 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Nov 16, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | ArkoFlake15 | @ArthurJFrost, this is what I was thinking regarding the scape: cdn.britannica.com/s:700x500/21/188721-050-3D55AD79/… Rodrigo I do agree regarding the flagellomere. What an intriguing insect you've happened upon! | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 2:11 | comment | added | ArkoFlake15 | I wondered about this too, and if this insects antennae had a very short elbow. I couldn't quite decide from the image | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 19:11 | comment | added | user32396 | For this to be an ant, the antennae MUST be geniculate ("elbowed"), with the first segment the longest (see here for some identification tips); this is not true of the OP photo. | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 15:34 | comment | added | Rodrigo | Indeed it looks like an Attini ant, though the antenna does not seem to be geniculate, and the first flagellomere seems to be the same size as the others. But that's probably just an impression, because the photo is not so clear. | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 6:24 | history | answered | ArkoFlake15 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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