mtrein: ab 10 mm queen (31. Okt 2011 17:19)

Hi, can you help identify?

http://i39.tinypic.com/23r4sjd.jpg

The picture is very bad but I hope you can at least tell me the species. I found it under a rock yesterday.

jbc: Re: ab 10 mm queen (31. Okt 2011 18:37)

In my opinion, it's a Camponotus.

DigiSERBIA: Re: ab 10 mm queen (31. Okt 2011 21:40)

Definitely looks like a camponotus species

mtrein: Re: ab 10 mm queen (31. Okt 2011 21:59)

Thanks, lads. I'll see if I can get a better picture. Any ideas on the [sub]species?

Anonymous: Re: ab 10 mm queen (31. Okt 2011 22:49)

The foto is too bad :/

mtrein: Re: ab 10 mm queen (31. Okt 2011 23:21)

Richtig. I uploaded a better picture. Still pretty bad, but I do not have a better camera unfortunately.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2dkbrc2.jpg

DigiSERBIA: Re: ab 10 mm queen (1. Nov 2011 09:07)

Looks like vagus if we are talking about camponotus

does it look like this?
http://www.maclab.sk/clanky/mravce/c-vagus01.jpg

mtrein: Re: ab 10 mm queen (1. Nov 2011 12:13)

It does look very much like it, but do we have Camponotus vagus here in the south of Brazil?

DigiSERBIA: Re: ab 10 mm queen (1. Nov 2011 13:40)

It is possible, there are vagus in asia and africa aswell you probably have a vagus queen. (lucky you i dont have one :( )

mtrein: Re: ab 10 mm queen (1. Nov 2011 13:53)

http://marcelosants.blogspot.com/2011/11/10-mm-camponotus.html

All pictures I have of it are there. There are so many Camponotus here in Brazil, and they are so much alike it is difficult to tell. It looks like vagus, though, but isn't the vagus queen supposed to be bigger (~15mm)? This one is 10mm.