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Photo#102990
pale-spot ant - Solenopsis - female

pale-spot ant - Solenopsis - Female
Ooltewah, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
March 20, 2007
Size: about 6 mm
in muddy ditch beside road

Moved
Moved from Myrmicinae.

Myrmicinae: Solenopsis
Indeed a fire ant, this one looks like S. richteri or more likely, because of the reddish tinge of the darker portions of the body, the hybrid richteri X invicta that is gradually displacing S. richteri altogether from the US. The specimen is a queen, probably just after removing here wings following a mating flight.

Maginification...
is just not big enough to check the antennal club - namely the number of segments it contains. Nonetheless, I suspect a fire ant (Solenopsis sp).. Anyway a dealated female, or young foundress queen, of the Myrmicinae subfamily.

 
Thanks, Richard
for the ID and extra info. I moved it from ID Request to Myrmicinae for now.

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