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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) » Myrmicinae » Solenopsidini » Fire Ants and Thief Ants (Solenopsis) » Diplorhoptrum - Thief ants (fugax group) (Solenopsis Diplorhoptrum - Thief ants (fugax group)) » Thief ant (but one of several) (Solenopsis texana)
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Tiny Ants? - Solenopsis texana
Copyright © 2018 jron

Tiny Ants? - Solenopsis texana
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
July 30, 2018
Size: ~1/8"
What are these really tiny ants?

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Tiny Ants? - Solenopsis texana Tiny Ants? - Solenopsis texana
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Contributed by jron on 30 July, 2018 - 10:57pm
Last updated 26 April, 2019 - 11:10am

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Species IDs in this group have to be taken with some caution, especially from photos, but S. texana is a quite abundant one in the area.
… James C. Trager, 26 April, 2019 - 11:10am login or register to post comments

Thief Ants
Look like Thief Ants (Solenopsis sp, probably in the molesta complex) to me. I don't suppose you can confirm a 2 segment club in any pictures you have? It looks right, but we're not working with much resolution. Body/head shape looks right for it, but it'd be good to rule out other tiny myrmecine ants.

Thief ants are generally hard to tell species of, and I don't think there's much hope given the image size here (even with samples under a microscope, it may not be possible without collected reproductives).
… Seth Burgess, 8 November, 2018 - 9:49am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 9 September, 2018 - 3:00am login or register to post comments

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