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Just google the species and youll get the size!
Not always. I have tried that, sometimes I do not get information on size, sometimes information is contradictory.
And your English is very good =c]
Thank You :)
We could perhaps create some kind of list of sizes for queens and workers (and other castes as appropriate) and leave it as a sticky somewhere in the forum, I'm sure it would be helpful for people who are thinking of getting a particular species. I didn't find such information. I would start it but I have very limited knowledge on sizes. I can contribute with sizes of species that I find here in the south of Brazil.
Great idea. :) I can contribute with sizes of species that I find in Poland.
Yeah sometimes internet it's tricky.
Biggest Messors are the cephalots and the arenarius .
But both are hard to get.
Messor arenarius and cephalotes don´t live in Europe but both live in Africa.
The biggest European Messor is Messor capitatus, the majors are quite big and have ridiculously humongous heads. They are as big as Pheidologeton diversus but are even a little more massiv.
@mtrein, your idea is hard to realize. You would have to put much work in such a project and it would take very long time. Some other forums already did like a warrant of apprehension on some species but nearly not every species listed for Europe is listed there and it will be very hard for ants like Plagiolepis spp. which is <1mm or someting like this and still has several species listed in south Europe.
When you don´t find anything than just for example type "antweb Camponotus vagus" into google search.
Antweb is a very good site to take a first look on some ants, also has very many photos of ants from around the world. But there is only a list of sientific publications to each ant and no data like size and stuff. However the photos have a little scale and you can guess on how big the ant is.
But also antweb isn´t always right...
That's a good tip, Kaj, but I find that there's not much information on antweb and, as you stated yourself, sometimes information is contradictory to other places.
I realise that there are too many species and such, but maybe we could do a list of more common species. Perhaps an open sticky which would be updated as soon as someone would add another species and subspecies and its size for queen and worker (and more castes, if polymorphic). Would this work? I don't see anything like this in any other forum, so it would be something new and unique to have such a sticky in this forum.