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Please Identify Smaller Yellow Ant - Dorymyrmex bureni
Copyright © 2012 Efram Goldberg

Please Identify Smaller Yellow Ant - Dorymyrmex bureni
Fern Forest Nature Center, Broward County, Florida, USA
Size: very small
The dead ant is a Trap Jaw Ant, only one species in florida, easy. What is the ant dragging it?
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Contributed by Efram Goldberg on 5 August, 2012 - 4:17pm
Last updated 10 October, 2012 - 7:16am

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… James C. Trager, 10 October, 2012 - 7:16am login or register to post comments

More than one trap-jaw ant in FL.
In fact there are three species of Odonotmachus in Florida (maybe four, if records of O. haematodus are to be believed). One is endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge, while the others are more widely distributed. They are most easily distinguished by the males. The little ant is the abundant Dorymyrmex bureni.
… James C. Trager, 10 August, 2012 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

 
oops -- [i]Odontomachus[/i]
oops -- Odontomachus
… James C. Trager, 21 August, 2012 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks for the ID and knowledge about the trap jaws. I was thinking of catching some and focus stacking them at about 8x. Would that help narrow it to a species?
… Efram Goldberg, 10 August, 2012 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

 
That could help.
Useful characters are the sculpture patterns of the mesosomal dorsum and on the petiole. You might have to get some close views showing the back and front of that pointy petiolar node.
… James C. Trager, 16 August, 2012 - 2:41pm login or register to post comments

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