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never expected these in this altitude
two dealates found

Type locality

Lepisiota but 12 antennomere

Thanks @arthropodantics for leading me around and finding these ants (and all the cool ones)!

Many workers and some larvae found under a rock in abandoned termite tunnels.

freakn finally

Same individual as here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/168809098

14 mm

First record of this species in Manitoba. Found by breaking open sticks in an area with a large leptothorax population

its just Neoponera. just random Neoponera

invasive species the last picture was from last year ... they still thrive well, prop due to the mild winters nowdays .... if thats good or bad idk

Trail of few workers at its type locality.
has a real Dolichoderus-ish feeling not seen in the specimen pics. Mught be filling the same niche?

Definitely not one of the worlds rarest Dolichoderine

I did not get the joke quite a long time - thought it was a name of someone, "I name this creature after sir Balbyter" or sth like that.

Thanks @scottwgavins for keeping an eye on this colony and giving me the heads up they were flying.

Pheidole au04/epem121

Photographing inverts on the Freshwater Track in Cooloola National Park, Qld.

Elevation 600-800m

First find in Torrey Pines

I think P. xene?

Elevation 500-550m. Secondary forest/garden.

I think?

In two nests of Myrmica sabuleti a few meters apart. One hirsuta queen in one nest, four in the other. Only ~1 km south of the site where G. W. Elmes found the species in 1987.

found by: Kende Gyárfás from a swimming pool