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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) » Formicinae » Lasiini » Crazy Ants (Nylanderia) » Nylanderia vividula
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Nylanderia reproductive - Nylanderia vividula
Copyright © 2016 Salvador Vitanza

Nylanderia reproductive - Nylanderia vividula
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA
June 2, 2016
Size: 3 mm
Many of these ants were floating in the pool at 6:00 PM.

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 2 June, 2016 - 10:51pm
Last updated 6 June, 2017 - 1:51pm

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… James C. Trager, 7 July, 2016 - 6:27am login or register to post comments

Maybe N*vivdula
If you can get really well focused and more magnified dorsal and lateral views of the genitalia, I can be more certain about this. Males of the two species are only reliably, but fairly easily, separated by genitalic characters.
Two other things, however, also suggest N*vividula:
- the flight date in early summer rather than early spring
- the habitat, irrigated residential rather than unirrigated grassland
… James C. Trager, 3 June, 2016 - 6:01am login or register to post comments

 
This is the best I could do with
my handheld camera and I am about to leave town for a month. I will take specimens with me hoping to get access to a microscope mounted camera with focus stacking to produce better images. I thought this was N. terricola because my previous submissions to BG, from my home, were identified as such. A Nylanderia species is the most abundant ant species at my home (indoors and outdoors). Thank you James for your help.
… Salvador Vitanza, 3 June, 2016 - 6:59am login or register to post comments

 
The workers
I recall mentioning recently, perhaps when you posted those workers, that N.viv and N.ter from Texas are hard to separate in pictures, sometime even with specimens and a good microscope. The males are better.
… James C. Trager, 3 June, 2016 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

 
Yes, I know
Then, would it be necessary to rename the ones I submitted a while ago and classified as N. terricola as simply Nylanderia?
… Salvador Vitanza, 3 June, 2016 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

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