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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 » Fungus Growing Ants (Attina) » Cyphomyrmex » Cyphomyrmex minutus
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unknown ant - Cyphomyrmex minutus
Copyright © 2015 Susan Leach Snyder

unknown ant - Cyphomyrmex minutus
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
December 29, 2014
Size: 1.75 mm

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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 18 February, 2015 - 5:58pm
Last updated 5 July, 2019 - 9:54pm

Moved
Moved from Cyphomyrmex.
… Steven Wang, 5 July, 2019 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… James C. Trager, 26 February, 2015 - 8:13am login or register to post comments

Cyphomyrmex
I'm pretty sure this is rimosus, but with a good dorsal view of the gaster (ant version of abdomen) I'd know for sure.
… Matthew Prebus, 18 February, 2015 - 8:23pm login or register to post comments

 
There is a dorsal view
of the gaster in the 5th photograph I linked. Do you need more details? If so, what specifically should I concentrate on when taking another photo of the gaster? Also, is C. rimosus a synonym for C. minutus?

I am a novice in trying to ID ants, but the "head" photographs I've found online of C rimosus and C minutus do not look like the photos I linked for this ant.

Thanks for all of your help.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 19 February, 2015 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

 
gaster
minutus used to be considered a subspecies of rimosus, but was raised to species in 1992 by Snelling & Longino. The feature of the gaster that I'm looking for is an indented area that extends posteriorly from the postpetiole. It's hard to see in the dorsal shot because the gaster is out of focus. The head does indeed look different from many of the images online, but I'm pretty sure that it's just a matter of the angle.
… Matthew Prebus, 19 February, 2015 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

 
I took another gaster
photograph, as well as another of the head. There seems to be a very slight indented area where you said there would be to confirm the species, but it is very slight. Also, I can not seem to duplicate the head angle of the other photographs online.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 20 February, 2015 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

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