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Hypoponera punctatissima
Long, narrow ant with dark abdomen other than the top segment.
Under rock in damp area with slugs, pincer bugs, woodlouse and short-tailed whipscorpions.
First for Project Noah and for BugGuide!
Spotted on Jan 2, 2014
Submitted on Jan 3, 2014
7 Comments
Neat ant not normally seen! It has an interesting history and biology:
http://www.antweb.org/description.do?ran...
Cindy, congratulations on a nice find! It's not often one gets a new species for bugguide and PN.
Hi Tom, I received a response from Bug Guide and apparently we're both wrong :) This is a first for Project Noah and for Bug Guide.
You most definitely could be right! I've had Fire Ant in my head since I found the short-tailed whipscorpion with them. Apparently there's a correlation and I just made a leap. Thank you for the comment and ID!
Nice shot Cindy. Maybe I'm wrong, but this looks like Ponera pennsylvanica to me. http://bugguide.net/node/view/46923/bgim...
Thank you :) I was actually shooting a Springtail but this was in the shot and couldn't pass it up!
Great picture Cindy!