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Post by bobdol on May 25, 2012 7:52:18 GMT
This is my favorite looking species from this genus! It is primarily a seed eater and is one of the largest species in its genus.  Uploaded with ImageShack.us |
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 25, 2012 10:24:01 GMT
Nice one Bobdol  Here's a tiny clue guys. I once kept a queen of this ant species. ;D |
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 25, 2012 14:18:53 GMT
Pheidole rhea? And how did your queen get on, Wood? Bobdol- If I were you, I'd be more careful with the picture URL if uploading something. I genuinely took a guess for this question, but that photo quite clearly says the species in the name. ;D |
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 25, 2012 14:43:38 GMT
Sadly she died without ever founding a colony, as she just kept wandering around instead of settling down and laying eggs.  Correct answer by the way Timenova, and you are quite right that the answer shows up when you go on the pic.  |
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 25, 2012 14:48:39 GMT
No clues at all for this one yet, except to say it a species not found in Europe or Britain. Attachments:
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Post by bobdol on May 25, 2012 14:57:05 GMT
Is it a Trachymyrmex Species? After all we had their social parasite yesterday:P!
And sorry about clearly displaying the name. Its not displayed for me so I didnt see it:(!
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Post by batspiderfish on May 25, 2012 17:01:44 GMT
A fungus grower, but not that one.  |
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Post by bobdol on May 27, 2012 11:40:46 GMT
Any chance of another clue? I'm only familiar with Atta, Acromyrmex and Trachymyrmex as far as fungus growers go and this looks like none of them...
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 27, 2012 13:00:26 GMT
Any chance of another clue? I'm only familiar with Atta, Acromyrmex and Trachymyrmex as far as fungus growers go and this looks like none of them... This ant is an attine fungus-growing ant. |
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Post by Welsh Ant on May 28, 2012 14:02:26 GMT
This is a tricky one  So it belongs to the same family as Atta, but it isn't if you see what I mean?  |
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Post by batspiderfish on May 28, 2012 14:10:18 GMT
The same tribe as Atta (the family is Formicidae, all ants.) Attini consists of all mutualistic fungus-growing species.
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Post by bobdol on May 28, 2012 17:46:58 GMT
This is a tricky one So it belongs to the same family as Atta, but it isn't if you see what I mean? I think there are about 10 different genus' in Attini and I do not think its any of the three well known ones (Atta, Acromyrmex and Trachymyrmex) - which makes this quite hard to work out ! |
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 28, 2012 17:52:52 GMT
This ant has a very common sounding species name connected with a person who makes shoes for horses.  |
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Post by bobdol on May 28, 2012 19:26:20 GMT
Ok finally got this one.
This is Mycocepurus smithii...
Managed to stumble over the picture as I looked at some of the Attini genus's .
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 28, 2012 19:47:10 GMT
Ok finally got this one. This is Mycocepurus smithii... Managed to stumble over the picture as I looked at some of the Attini genus's . Yes, that's the correct answer; and the horse shoe connection was of course "Smith" as in a blacksmith. That closes this game. |
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