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[namamenot]

Hi
I arrived from Brasil and I catch about 50 ants with eggs and larvas. I need your help because I don't know the species and can I have someting without the king? I have only europenian ants so I need help, pls.
The ants live under ground, near the tree. The worker is very very agressive and very big, about 2 cm.

thank you

[JimmyVe]

Don't know the species but there is a big change you don't captured the queen.

[MorbidMike]

Looks like a Pachycondyla species to me (apicalis or villosa possibly?).

[redhazor]

Maybe it´s a dinoponera. Whats the size?

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Dinoponera are brazilian carnivore ants, commonly found in Amazon forest.

[Podi]

I don't exactly know the species, but a little advice from me.
Don't take any exotic species with you during a journey. It's not legal and could be dangerous, if they escape.

[baumarkthammer]

It is not Pachycondyla apicalis, since the ends of the feelers aren´t yellow.
I would say it is not villosa, they are normaly smaller and have a complete different color, also it is nearly impossible to catch them, unless he jumped around in the threes; and how he wrote they lived underground, P. villosa live always on threes.
Colonies of most Amerian Pachycondyla species are very easy to keep. The problem with catching them is that the queen mostly jumping out of the nest when you open it and runs away alone.
The sting of most American Pachycondyla is very painful, sometimes described as the second most painful antssting right behind Paraponera. So be careful!
It sure is a Pachycondyla, there are several species.
The size of 2cm doesn´t say that much, the size of many Pachycondyla spezies is depending on where they live.
But it sure isn´t P. villosa or P. apicalis.

[melk9]

I took this pick close by a river, inside the Amazonia Rainforest. For me it looks like Camponotus sericeus, but my friends says that there are not sericeus in south america. But this one really like sericeus, isen't?

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[baumarkthammer]

No it has a completley different color, sericeus lives in Japan and other parts of Asia and has golden hair on the gaster.
Which ant that is I can´t tell at all, sinc there are very much species looking very simular, especially near Amazonas...

[Pi.Ag3]

Hi,

not every golden ant species is C. sericeus! Your friend is correct, sericeus only lives in Asia. This is maybe a species of the Camponotus sericeiventris complex. But Camponotus identification is very difficult...

Greetings, Phil