ANTSTORE World of Ants

[KiamCameron]

Can you guys tell me what ants are in spain as im going there in may and july where the mating season starts around there and im hoping to collect some queens from there so can you give me a list of ants that live in spain I cannot find a list anywhere on the internet.

[ratgreen]

just got back from lanzarote and there was a huge line of messor barbarus massive about 50 meters long, i saw some random queen ant with wings that might have flown over from Africa or something(lanzarote is a little island near Africa) it was huge and scared the crap out of me and my dad as it landed on the snooker table as we were playing,'sweet look at that queen ant its huge' my dad 'yer,great...' and also a little nest neast my room ,i have some pictures which i will upload tomorrow, so hopefully someone can identify them.

[ratgreen]

anyone know what species these are. i liked the major so i took a lot of pictures of it. they were quite small and browny-red body and really dark brown head and abdomen as you can see.

[kashmir79]

looks like some type of Pheidole, or possibly Pheidologeton (cant spell it)

[thomie]

I've seen this ant/an ant who looks really like this one on antstore.net . Maybe you should browse the shop if some ant looks like this one (look at the size etc.)

Good luck

[Messorus]

I had seen this Pheidole, I think it is, on Malta, very very dry there, just stones and opuncies.... I send a pic of majors, I think it is the same specie

[thomie]

i think they are different, the back of your ants is less round than the other one :p

[ratgreen]

nah they look almost the same. yer they are the same so they are Pheidole pallidula its just in the pics on antstores shop they are bright orange but after looking at this http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?t=3711 they are the same, i might buy some lol they were cool

[KiamCameron]

So Can I have a list of what ants are in spain ? I have found out.

Messor Barbarus

[mpir]

I have found this list... it is supposed to be species in Spain and Portugal, the whole Iberian peninsula. I hope it helps.

Dolichoderinae

Bothriomyrmex hispanicus………… (Santschi, 1922)
Bothriomyrmex gibbus…………….. (Soudek, 1925)
Bothriomyrmex saundersi………….. (Santschi, 1922)
Dolichoderus quadripunctatus……… (Linnaeus, 1771)
Linepithema humile………………… (Mayr, 1868)
Tapinoma ambiguum……………….. (Emery, 1925)
Tapinoma erraticum………………… (Latreille, 1798)
Tapinoma melanocephalum………… (Fabricius, 1793)
Tapinoma nigerrimum……………… (Nylander, 1856)
Tapinoma pygmaeum………………. (Dufour, 1857)
Tapinoma simrothi…………………. (Krausse, 1911)


Formicinae

Camponotus aethiops……………… (Latreille, 1798)
Camponotus amaurus……………… (Espadaler, 1997)
Camponotus barbaricus……………. (Emery, 1905)
Camponotus cruentatus……………. (Latreille, 1802)
Camponotus fallax…………………. (Nylander, 1856)
Camponotus Figaro………………… (Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969)
Camponotus foreli…………………. (Emery, 1881)
Camponotus gestroi……………….. (Emery, 1878)
Camponotus haroi………………….. (Espadaler, 1997)
Camponotus herculeanus…………. (Linnaeus, 1758)
Camponotus lateralis……………… (Olivier, 1792)
Camponotus ligniperdus…………… (Latreille, 1802)
Camponotus micans………………. (Nylander, 1856)
Camponotus piceus……………….. (Leach, 1825)
Camponotus pilicornis……………. (Roger, 1859)
Camponotus sicheli……………….. (Mayr, 1866)
Camponotus sylvaticus …………….(Olivier, 1792)
Camponotus truncates…………….. (Spinola, 1808)
Camponotus universitatis…………. (Forel, 1890)
Camponotus vagus………………… (Scopoli, 1763)
Cataglyphis douwesi………………. (De Haro & Collingwood, 2000)
Cataglyphis floricola……………… (Tinaut, 1993)
Cataglyphis hispanicus…………… (Emery, 1906)
Cataglyphis humeya……………… (Tinaut, 1991)
Cataglyphis ibericus………………. (Emery, 1906)
Cataglyphis piliscapus……………. (Forel, 1901)
Cataglyphis rosenhaueri………….. (Santschi, 1925)
Cataglyphis velox…………………. (Santschi, 1929)
Formica bruni……………………… (Kutter, 1967)
Formica cinerea………………… (Mayr, 1853)
Formica cunicularia…………….. (Latreille, 1798)
Formica decipiens………………. (Bondroit, 1918)
Formica dusmeti………………… (Emery, 1909)
Formica exsecta………………… (Nylander, 1846)
Formica foreli…………………… (Bondroit, 1918)
Formica frontalis………………… (Santschi, 1919)
Formica fusca…………………… (Linnaeus, 1758)
Formica gagates………………… (Latreille, 1798)
Formica gerardi…………………. (Bondroit 1917)
Formica lemani…………………. (Bondroit, 1917)
Formica lugubris……………….. (Zetterstedt, 1838)
Formica paralugubris…………… (Seifert, 1996)
Formica picea…………………… (Nylander, 1846)
Formica polyctena……………… (Förster, 1850)
Formica pratensis………………. (Retzius, 1783)
Formica pressilabris…………… (Nylander, 1846)
Formica rufa…………………… (Linnaeus, 1761)
Formica rufibarbis…………….. (Fabricius, 1793)
Formica sanguinea……………. (Latreille, 1798)
Formica selysi………………… (Bondroit, 1918)
Formica subrufa……………….. (Roger, 1859)
Lasius alienus…………………. (Schenck, 1852)
Lasius bicornis………………… (Förster, 1850)
Lasius brunneus……………….. (Latreille, 1798)
Lasius carniolicus……………… (Mayr, 1861)
Lasius cinereus………………… (Seifert, 1992)
Lasius citrinus…………………. (Emery, 1922)
Lasius distinguendus…………… (Emery, 1916)
Lasius emarginatus…………….. (Olivier, 1792)
Lasius flavus…………………… (Fabricius, 1782)
Lasius fuliginosus……………….. (Latreille, 1798)
Lasius grandis………………….. (Forel, 1909)
Lasius lasioides…………………. (Emery, 1869)
Lasius meridionalis…………….. (Bondroit, 1920)
Lasius mixtus………………….. (Nylander, 1846)
Lasius myops………………….. (Forel, 1894)
Lasius neglectus………………. (Van Loon, Boomsma & Andrásfalvy, 1990)
Lasius niger…………………… (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lasius paralienus……………… (Seifert, 1992)
Lasius piliferus………………… (Seifert, 1992)
Lasius platythorax……………… (Seifert, 1992)
Lasius psammophilus………….. (Seifert, 1992)
Lasius rabaudi………………… (Bondroit, 1917)
Lasius sabularum…………….. (Bondroit, 1918)
Lasius umbratus………………. (Nylander, 1846)
Lepisiota nigra……………….. (Dalla Torre, 1893)
Paratrechina flavipes………… (F. Smith, 1874)
Paratrechina jaegerskioeldi…… (Mayr, 1904)
Paratrechina longicornis……… (Latreille, 1802)
Plagiolepis grassei…………… (Le Masne, 1956)
Plagiolepis pygmaea…………. (Latreille, 1798)
Plagiolepis schmitzii…………. (Forel, 1895)
Plagiolepis xene……………… (Stärcke, 1936)
Polyergus rufescens…………. (Latreille, 1798)
Proformica ferreri…………… (Bondroit, 1918)
Proformica longiseta………… (Collingwood, 1978)
Proformica nasuta…………… (Nylander, 1856)
Rossomyrmex minuchae…….. (Tinaut, 1981)

Leptanillinae

Leptanilla charonea…………. (López, Martínez & Barandica, 1994)
Leptanilla plutonia………….. (López, Martínez & Barandica, 1994)
Leptanilla revelierii…………. (Emery, 1870)
Leptanilla zaballosi…………. (López, Martínez & Barandica, 1994)


Myrmicinae

Anergates atratulus………….. (Schenck, 1852)
Aphaenogaster cardenai…….. (Espadaler, 1981)
Aphaenogaster dulcineae……. (Emery, 1924)
Aphaenogaster gibbosa……… (Latreille, 1798)
Aphaenogaster iberica………. (Emery, 1908)
Aphaenogaster senilis……….. (Mayr, 1853)
Aphaenogaster splendida…….. (Roger, 1859)
Aphaenogaster striativentris…. (Forel, 1895)
Aphaenogaster subterranean…. (Latreille, 1798)
Cardiocondyla batesii………… (Forel, 1894)
Cardiocondyla elegans………. (Emery, 1869)
Cardiocondyla mauritanica….. (Forel, 1890)
Cardiocondyla nigra…………. (Forel, 1905)
Chalepoxenus kutteri………… (Cagniant, 1973)
Chalepoxenus muellerianus…. (Finzi, 1922)
Crematogaster auberti……….. (Emery, 1869)
Crematogaster fuentei……….. (Menozzi, 1922)
Crematogaster laestrygon…… (Emery, 1869)
Crematogaster scutellaris…… (Olivier, 1792)
Crematogaster sordidula…….. (Nylander, 1849)
Formicoxenus nitidulus……… (Nylander, 1846)
Goniomma baeticum………… (Reyes & Rodríguez, 1987)
Goniomma blanci…………….. (André, 1881)
Goniomma collingwoodi……… (Espadaler, 1997)
Goniomma compressisquama…. (Tinaut, ??)
Goniomma decipiens………….. (Espadaler, 1997)
Goniomma hispanicum………… (André, 1883)
Goniomma kugleri……………. (Espadaler, 1986)
Harpagoxenus sublaevis………. (Nylander, 1849)
Leptothorax acervorum……….. (Fabricius, 1793)
Leptothorax gredleri…………… (Mayr, 1855)
Leptothorax muscorum……….. (Nylander, 1846)
Temnothorax affinis………….. (Mayr, 1855)
Temnothorax albipennis……… (Curtis, 1854)
Temnothorax algiricus……….. (Forel, 1894)
Temnothorax angustulus……… (Nylander, 1856)
Temnothorax atlantis…………. (Santschi, 1911)
Temnothorax baeticus………… (Emery, 1924)
Temnothorax blascoi…………. (Espadaler, 1997)
Temnothorax caesari…………. (Espadaler, 1997)
Temnothorax cagnianti……….. (Tinaut, 1983)
Temnothorax clypeatus……….. (Mayr, 1853)
Temnothorax corticalis……….. (Schenck, 1852)
Temnothorax crepuscularis……. (Tinaut, 1994)
Temnothorax cristinae………… (Espadaler, 1997)
Temnothorax flavispinus s.l…… (André, 1883)
Temnothorax formosus……….. (Santschi, 1909)
Temnothorax gredosi…………. (Espadaler & Collingwood, 1982)
Temnothorax grouvellei……… (Bondroit, 1918)
Temnothorax ibericus…………. (Menozzi, 1922)
Temnothorax interruptus……… (Schenck, 1852)
Temnothorax kraussei………… (Emery, 1916)
Temnothorax lichtensteini……. (Bondroit, 1918)
Temnothorax longispinosus…… (Roger, 1863)
Temnothorax nadigi………….. (Kutter, 1925)
Temnothorax naeviventris……. (Santschi, 1910)
Temnothorax niger……………. (Forel, 1894)
Temnothorax nigriceps……….. (Mayr, 1855)
Temnothorax nylanderi………… (Förster, 1850)
Temnothorax pardoi…………… (Tinaut, 1987)
Temnothorax parvulus………… (Schenck, 1852)
Temnothorax platycephalus…… (Espadaler, 1997)
Temnothorax rabaudi………….. (Bondroit, 1918)
Temnothorax racovitzai………… (Bondroit, 1918)
Temnothorax recedens………… (Nylander, 1856)
Temnothorax schaufussi……….. (Forel, 1879)
Temnothorax specularis……….. (Emery, 1916)
Temnothorax subcingulatus…… (Emery, 1924)
Temnothorax tristis…………….. (Bondroit, 1918)
Temnothorax tuberum…………. (Fabricius, 1775)
Temnothorax tyndalei…………. (Forel, 1909)
Temnothorax unifasciatus……… (Latreille, 1798)
Temnothorax universitatis…….. (Espadaler, 1997)
Messor barbarus………………. (Linnaeus, 1767)
Messor bouvieri………………. (Bondroit, 1918)
Messor capitatus………………. (Latreille, 1798)
Messor celiae…………………. (Reyes, 1985)
Messor hispanicus…………….. (Santschi, 1919)
Messor lobicornis…………….. (Forel, 1894)
Messor lusitanicus……………. (Tinaut, 1985)
Messor marocanus…………….. (Santschi, 1927)
Messor structor………………… (Latreille, 1798)
Messor timidus………………… (Espadaler, 1997)
Monomorium algiricum……….. (Bernard, 1955)
Monomorium Andrei………….. (Saunders, 1890)
Monomorium carbonarium……. (F. Smith, 1858)
Monomorium monomorium……. (Bolton, 1987)
Monomorium pharaonis……….. (Linnaeus, 1758)
Monomorium salomonis………. (Linnaeus, 1758)
Monomorium subopacum……… (F. Smith, 1858)
Myrmecina graminicola……….. (Latreille, 1802)
Myrmica aloba………………… (Forel, 1909)
Myrmica karavajevi…………… (Arnoldi, 1930)
Myrmica lemasnei…………….. (Bernard, 1967)
Myrmica lobulicornis………….. (Nylander, 1857)
Myrmica rubra………………… (Linnaeus, 1758)
Myrmica ruginodis……………. (Nylander, 1846)
Myrmica sabuleti……………… (Meinert, 1861)
Myrmica scabrinodis…………. (Nylander, 1846)
Myrmica schencki……………. (Viereck, 1903)
Myrmica specioides………….. (Bondroit, 1918)
Myrmica spinosior……………. (Santschi, 1931)
Myrmica sulcinodis…………… (Nylander, 1846)
Myrmica vandeli………………. (Bondroit, 1920)
Myrmica wesmaeli……………. (Bondroit, 1918)
Myrmoxenus bernardi…………. (Espadaler, 1982)
Myrmoxenus kraussei…………. (Emery, 1915)
Myrmoxenus ravouxi…………. (André, 1896)
Oxyopomyrmex santschii…….. (Forel, 1904)
Oxyopomyrmex saulcyi………. (Emery, 1889)
Pheidole pallidula……………… (Nylander, 1849)
Pheidole teneriffana……………. (Forel, 1893)
Pyramica argiola………………. (Emery, 1869)
Pyramica baudueri……………. (Emery, 1875)
Pyramica membranifera………. (Emery, 1869)
Pyramica tenuipilis…………… (Emery, 1915)
Solenopsis fairchildi………….. (Wheeler, 1926)
Solenopsis fugax……………… (Latreille, 1798)
Solenopsis latro………………. (Forel, 1894)
Solenopsis lusitanica…………. (Emery, 1915)
Solenopsis monticola…………. (Bernard, 1950)
Solenopsis nicaeensis………… (Bernard, 1950)
Solenopsis oraniensis…………. (Forel, 1894)
Solenopsis orbula…………….. (Emery, 1875)
Solenopsis robusta…………… (Bernard, 1950)
Stenamma debile…………….. (Förster, 1850)
Stenamma striatulum………… (Emery, 1894)
Strongylognathus caeciliae…… (Forel, 1897)
Strongylognathus huberi……… (Forel, 1874)
Strongylognathus testaceus…… (Schenck, 1852)
Teleutomyrmex kutteri………… (Tinaut, 1990)
Teleutomyrmex schneideri……. (Espadaler, 2006)
Tetramorium bicarinatum…….. (Nylander, 1846)
Tetramorium caldarium………. (Roger, 1857)
Tetramorium caespitum………. (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tetramorium impurum……….. (Förster, 1850)
Tetramorium lanuginosum…… (Mayr, 1870)
Tetramorium meridionale…….. (Emery, 1870)
Tetramorium ruginode……….. (Stitz, 1917)
Tetramorium semilaeve……… (André, 1883)


Ponerinae

Amblyopone emeryi…………. (Saunders, 1890)
Amblyopone gaetulica………. (Baroni Urbani, 1978)
Anochetus ghilianii………….. (Spinola, 1851)
Cryptopone ochracea………… (Mayr, 1855)
Hypoponera abeillei…………. (André, 1881)
Hypoponera eduardi………….. (Forel, 1894)
Hypoponera punctatissima…… (Roger, 1859)
Hypoponera ragusai………….. (Emery, 1894)
Ponera coarctata………………. (Latreille, 1802)
Ponera testacea……………….. (Emery, 1895)
Proceratium melinum………… (Roger, 1860)

[KiamCameron]

Wow so lots of species in spain I think ill take around 20 test tubes there

Does anyone know as I got told if im taking these ants home will i get arrested or something because UK have apparently got stricter about ants ?

[ratgreen]

all im gona say is if your lucky/skilled/stupid you could smuggle them home, but dont, its not worth the risk, i dont know what they would do, also you would have to take them with your hand luggage because they dont heat the suitcase hold on the plane so it gets way below zero, and then you might get caught if you have them in your hand luggage.

[KiamCameron]

I might post them to my house think that will work ?

[thomie]

Yeah you can try it!
You make a hole in foam moans then you put a test tube with the ants inside it. The best you can send the ants separated because if they catch one maybe they don't catch the other ones..
I don't think they'll catch them. Because it to much work to check all the letters witch are send

[KiamCameron]

I dont wanna get busted :p But

Solenopsis fairchildi………….. (Wheeler, 1926)
Solenopsis fugax……………… (Latreille, 1798)
Solenopsis latro………………. (Forel, 1894)
Solenopsis lusitanica…………. (Emery, 1915)
Solenopsis monticola…………. (Bernard, 1950)
Solenopsis nicaeensis………… (Bernard, 1950)
Solenopsis oraniensis…………. (Forel, 1894)
Solenopsis orbula…………….. (Emery, 1875)
Solenopsis robusta…………… (Bernard, 1950)

Arent them ones members of the fire ant family ?