An oddity

June 27, 2009 by myrmecos

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This odd little beast crawled out of a leaf litter sample from a mesic oak/pine forest in Florida. Ten points to the first person who picks what it is.

(Not sure what you’ll do with ten points. But hey. You’re all a creative lot.)

Posted in Nature | Tagged entomology, mystery | 5 Comments

5 Responses

on June 27, 2009 at 10:22 am MrILoveTheAnts

Hypoponera punctatissima?
on June 27, 2009 at 12:50 pm James C. Trager

Darn!

MrILTA beat me to it, and I really needed those points!

The oddity here is that this is a male ant, worker-like in form, rather than the usual winged and waspy sort.
on June 28, 2009 at 7:19 am Marie-Julie Favé

I support the Hypoponera. But I’ll go for another species just so I have some chances for those 10 points!

Hypoponera opaciceps
on June 29, 2009 at 7:01 am Update on the oddity « Myrmecos Blog

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on June 30, 2009 at 8:08 am Slow Blogging Ahead « Myrmecos Blog

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