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WebMD Taxonomy Fail

March 17, 2010 by myrmecos

Not a fire ant.

But I’ll give ten Myrmecos (™) points to the first person who can identify what species it really is.

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Posted in Ants, fun, Taxonomy | Tagged Ants, webmd | 12 Comments

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  1. on March 17, 2010 at 1:49 pm Rob U.

    Camponotus floridanus


    • on March 17, 2010 at 1:50 pm myrmecos

      Close, but floridanus is a bit hairier than this ant.


  2. on March 17, 2010 at 1:52 pm Joshua King

    Either Camponotus sayi or Camponotus decipiens. Lousy pic.


    • on March 17, 2010 at 1:53 pm Joshua King

      Oh, and GIANT fail.


    • on March 17, 2010 at 2:05 pm myrmecos

      Bingo! Ten points for you.

      It isn’t clear from the picture to say for certain which of those two it is. I *think* it’s sayi, but decipiens would also fit.


  3. on March 17, 2010 at 2:02 pm Sifolinia

    I’m well outside my geographic area of expertise here, but Camponotus discolor?


    • on March 17, 2010 at 2:03 pm myrmecos

      Very close, but discolor is also hairier than this ant.


  4. on March 17, 2010 at 2:34 pm James C. Trager

    I like C. decipiens for this ant, becasue of its rather chinky head. The major of C. sayi has a somewhat less robust head. C. snellingi is out because of the lack or red or yellow on the gaster.


    • on March 17, 2010 at 2:51 pm myrmecos

      Thanks James. I figured you’d have the most insightful comment of anyone.


      • on March 17, 2010 at 5:36 pm jtrager

        It would have been even better if i could type. I meant chunky, as in thick-headed. But, yeah…


  5. on March 18, 2010 at 10:01 pm Subverted

    Honestly…the biggest fails on that slideshow from my perspective(a primarily arachnid related one) are:

    1) Latrodectus – not a bug…and certainly not poisonous.
    2) Since when do Latrodectus have the ability to produce two fang marks that far apart! O_O I would love to see one capable of that…
    3) Loxoscelese bite – are we sure that isnt a necrotic infection?
    4) Scorpions in the USA… deadly AND poisonous. Who knew?! >_< (The only scorpion in the US that really has even a chance of causing death w/o an allergic reaction is the AZ bark, Centruroides sp., and even then only in small children/the elderly.)

    Ugh… maybe I should get out more…


  6. on March 19, 2010 at 3:32 pm Genius of the press, vIII « The Skeptical Moth

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