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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Myrmicinae » Attini » Miniature Trap-jaw Ants (Strumigenys) » Strumigenys membranifera
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Tiny Ant - Strumigenys membranifera
Copyright © 2014 Steven Wang

Tiny Ant - Strumigenys membranifera
Cypress, Harris County, Texas, USA
September 28, 2014
Size: >1mm
Found under a rock in the garden while looking for stuff. I barely noticed it, and when I did, I though it was one of the tiny cryptic Pheidole sp. ants around here.
Again, these were tiny. Slightly smaller than the springtails I was looking for.
Only when I noticed its strange shape did I realize that I have never seen this species before.
I collected 2 workers in moist soil, which also had a few workers of Tapinoma melanocephalum, Pheidole sp.(the tiny kind), and Brachymyrmex patigonicus under it.
Is it possible that someone can perform the elusive species ID on this?

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Tiny Ant - Strumigenys membranifera Tiny Ant - Strumigenys membranifera
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Contributed by Steven Wang on 30 September, 2014 - 6:35pm
Last updated 10 November, 2014 - 11:12am

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… James C. Trager, 10 November, 2014 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 6 November, 2014 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

this genus perhaps
… Even Dankowicz, 1 October, 2014 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

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