Pseudomyrmex

Here you find the place to interchange your experiences of keeping exotic ants.

Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon melk9 » 3. Jul 2009 19:54

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

Bild

Bild

Bild
melk9
member
member
 
Beiträge: 137
Alter: 50
Registriert: 19. Aug 2008 14:57
Land: Brazil (br)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Gigantiops

Beitragvon highered » 6. Jul 2009 14:27

Very good pictures.
highered
member
member
 
Beiträge: 262
Alter: 44
Registriert: 27. Mai 2008 13:36
Land: United Kingdom (uk)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Gigantiops

Beitragvon damondeionno » 6. Jul 2009 14:48

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.
damondeionno
member
member
 
Beiträge: 231
Alter: 47
Registriert: 20. Okt 2005 18:08
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Gigantiops

Beitragvon derameisige » 6. Jul 2009 16:47

Hi melk9,

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

derameisige
derameisige
member
member
 
Beiträge: 490
Alter: 83
Registriert: 12. Jan 2008 18:18
Wohnort: Farmington and Michelstat
Land: United States (us)
Hat sich bedankt: 2 mal
Danke bekommen: 46 mal

Re: Gigantiops

Beitragvon melk9 » 7. Jul 2009 15:58

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



derameisige hat geschrieben:Hi melk9,

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

derameisige
melk9
member
member
 
Beiträge: 137
Alter: 50
Registriert: 19. Aug 2008 14:57
Land: Brazil (br)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon JimmyVe » 7. Jul 2009 22:01

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.
JimmyVe
member
member
 
Beiträge: 5369
Alter: 44
Registriert: 12. Dez 2005 17:28
Wohnort: Geel
Land: Belgium (be)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 1 Danke

Re: Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon Messorus » 16. Jul 2009 09:12

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 :P
Benutzeravatar
Messorus
member
member
 
Beiträge: 284
Alter: 30
Registriert: 7. Okt 2007 19:39
Land: Slovakia (sk)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon melk9 » 28. Sep 2009 16:05

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
melk9
member
member
 
Beiträge: 137
Alter: 50
Registriert: 19. Aug 2008 14:57
Land: Brazil (br)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon derameisige » 28. Sep 2009 17:22

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
derameisige
member
member
 
Beiträge: 490
Alter: 83
Registriert: 12. Jan 2008 18:18
Wohnort: Farmington and Michelstat
Land: United States (us)
Hat sich bedankt: 2 mal
Danke bekommen: 46 mal

Re: Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon Messorus » 3. Okt 2009 18:28

derameisige hat geschrieben: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 :grin: 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
Benutzeravatar
Messorus
member
member
 
Beiträge: 284
Alter: 30
Registriert: 7. Okt 2007 19:39
Land: Slovakia (sk)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon undercoverAnt » 3. Mär 2010 13:40

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

G
undercoverAnt
member
member
 
Beiträge: 24
Alter: 39
Registriert: 1. Mär 2010 11:37
Land: United Kingdom (uk)
Hat sich bedankt: 0 Danke
Danke bekommen: 0 Danke

Re: Pseudomyrmex

Beitragvon baumarkthammer » 3. Mär 2010 14:27

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.
Benutzeravatar
baumarkthammer
Ehrenmitglied
Ehrenmitglied
 
Beiträge: 1971
Alter: 32
Registriert: 12. Mär 2008 20:40
Wohnort: Ratingen
Land: Germany (de)
Hat sich bedankt: 39 mal
Danke bekommen: 112 mal


Zurück zu Experience with exotic ants

Wer ist online?

Mitglieder in diesem Forum: 0 Mitglieder und 1 Gast