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[melk9]

How do I take care of this specie???? Check out the picks!!! ;^)
Hugs

[highered]

Very good pictures.

[damondeionno]

Umm, Melk. We aren't going to have a clue really. You can't just pick up ants from your backyard in Brazil and expect us to know what to do with them.

Where do they live in the wild? In wood? Underground? Wet? Dry? etc.

That's probably your best place to start.

[derameisige]

Hi melk9,

Where are the Gigantiops? - What I can see in your pics are two species of Pseudomyrmex.

derameisige

[melk9]

It's true, Derameisige

It's a Pseudomyrmex. But it's not two species, they are the queen and the first worker. Isn't it interesting that they have diferent colours? The queen is redish and the worker is completely black. Knowing the excat specie it will be easy to find help with the care.

Take care
Hugs

Hi melk9,

Where are the Gigantiops? - What I can see in your pics are two species of Pseudomyrmex.

derameisige

[JimmyVe]

Don't know how to take care of these nice ants. Search a bit on the web

Very nice ants to, good luck with them mate.

[Messorus]

Hello
I was bit looking at Japan ants in this winter, found many interesting sites and all ants with anatomy like this Pseudomyrmex and also this tribe, was nesting in old branches and wood... Pseudomyrmex in Asia have nest in branches and sticks...
But lovely ants you have

[melk9]

In the end I found out that this one in the picks is a Gigantiops. Very interesting ant. The colony had some problems but the queen is doing fine.

Hugs

[derameisige]

Sorry melk9, but Gigantiops is a genus of formicine ants. They have only one petiolar segment. Your ants clearly have two segments between thorax and gaster like the Myrmicinae. They are Pseudomyrmex sp. without any doubt. Together with Tetraponera this genus belongs to an own subfamily, the Pseudomyrmecinae.

derameisige

[Messorus]

Sorry melk9, but Gigantiops is a genus of formicine ants. They have only one petiolar segment. Your ants clearly have two segments between thorax and gaster like the Myrmicinae. They are Pseudomyrmex sp. without any doubt. Together with Tetraponera this genus belongs to an own subfamily, the Pseudomyrmecinae.

derameisige

I love this post It´s absolutely truely and profesionaly told
Melk, Gigantiops is absolutely different type of ant, with long legs, high standing and with big eyes and many occuli...
: http://www.flickr.com/photos/80125969@N00/2241096573

[undercoverAnt]

Messorus,
That Gigantiops picture is awesome! what a beautiful ant species.

G

[baumarkthammer]

Pseudomyrmex are ants that just have very small colonies, smaller than Gigantiops destructor and so on.
The keeping is very simple and the main problem is finding a good nest for them.
Pseudomyrmex mostly live in grass, in the empty dry pipes and not even in the thick ones. The main problem with that is that mould kills them and such small nests can mould very fast.
Some Pseudomyrmex spec. don´t even reach 100 ants per colony!
They can live in very dry old wood, too, but in very thin sticks.
They mostly eat sugar but like evry ant need proteins in form of little insects.
By the way those ants are very interesting. They can see very well and hunt good for small insects.
They can be kept with other ants of Brazil.

PS: They live in the same locations as Cephalotes and other small ants, they can be kept together. Just wanted to mention because those are very nice ants, too.