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Ant reproductives - Trachymyrmex smithi
Copyright © 2015 Salvador Vitanza

Ant reproductives - Trachymyrmex smithi
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA
July 11, 2015
Rough and Red ant reproductives are swarming all over El Paso at this time of the year (July 11) after heavy rains. A friend sent me some photos (not shared here) showing huge swarms covering sidewalks and roofs. Quite impressive!

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 12 July, 2015 - 11:02am
Last updated 25 May, 2021 - 6:54pm

Sorry about that, my mistake
This appears to be Trachymyrmex smithi, a darkly colored larger species of Trachymyrmex known from many locations around El Paso. Acromyrmex versicolor is out of range in El Paso and appears to be a less tuberculated ant.

Moved from Desert Leaf-cutting Ant.
… Steven Wang, 25 May, 2021 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

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Moved from Ants.
… Steven Wang, 9 October, 2018 - 12:35am login or register to post comments

Acromyrmex versicolor
Acromyrmex versicolor
… Scotty Anderson, 25 August, 2015 - 3:06pm login or register to post comments

 
I would second this
Nothing else quite like it out there
… Steven Wang, 18 September, 2018 - 2:33pm login or register to post comments

Pretty sure this is an Attine queen
not a rough harverster ant- the head shape and texture is pretty distinctive. Best guess would be some sort of weird color form of Trachymyrmex sepentrionalis.
… J. Anderson, 11 August, 2015 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Anderson!
My tentative ID was a wild guess based simply on the fact that I found this ant at my home at the same time that I had heard harvester ants were swarming in towns near El Paso.
… Salvador Vitanza, 11 August, 2015 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… v belov, 12 July, 2015 - 11:07am login or register to post comments

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