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Stigmatomma pallipes - dealated queen - Stigmatomma pallipes - female

Stigmatomma pallipes - dealated queen - Stigmatomma pallipes - Female
Rancocas Woods, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
April 18, 2010
Size: Maybe around 6 - 6.5 mm?
Amblyopone pallipes

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queen or not
is this a queen or not i found her alone so i think she is but i need an experts words

 
Looks like it
The large eyes would point towards this being a dealated queen.

Moved
Moved from Ants.

James C. Trager "...yes, Amblyopone pallipes. Not a particularly rare ant, but rarely encountered because its cryptic, subterranean life. This is the largest, by a good measure of our hypogaeic ant species, 4-5 mm. It is a specialist predator of geophilmorph centipedes."

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