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Ant?? - Anergates atratulus
Copyright © 2007 Claude Pilon

Ant?? - Anergates atratulus
Repentigny, Lanaudière County, Quebec, Canada
August 26, 2007
Size: 3 mm
On weeds.
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Contributed by Claude Pilon on 26 August, 2007 - 4:55pm
Last updated 30 August, 2007 - 9:37am

Wow!
Excellent pic. And nice find.
… Jeff Gruber, 27 August, 2007 - 8:58am login or register to post comments

Parasitic Myrmicine Ant
A VERY interesting post indeed. This strange sexual - I can't even tell the gender - reminds of Anergates atratulus, a parasite of Tetramorium ants in Europe.
You should submit this - excellent- picture to a Canadian Ant expert.
… Richard Vernier, 26 August, 2007 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Richard and Jeff.
I have forwared a request to a Canadian ant expert and wait for an answer.
… Claude Pilon, 27 August, 2007 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Anergates male
This is a male of Anergates atratulus! Great pic!
It's probably the first record in Canada.
The species has been introduced to NE-America long time ago, together with its host species Tetramorium cf. caespitum (the pavement ant).
Usually the males don't leave from their mother nest but mate with their winged sisters inside.
Here are a couple more pics, mainly of gynes:
http://www.ameisenwiki.de/index.php/Anergates_atratulus
Congratulations!
A. Buschinger
… A.Buschinger, 30 August, 2007 - 8:09am login or register to post comments

 
Anergates atratulus
Thanks very much for the identification and information.
… Claude Pilon, 30 August, 2007 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

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