Large aggregation found under stone together with ants.
Fascinating paper by one of my former professors (BH): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180847
One of the many undescribed species of the genus. A colony of few hundred workers and roughly 15±3 queens. The queens do have a wing scar like structure however by thorax being under developed and eyes being small, I don't think it would be able to fly.
This ant is native to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
thats not a milipede... maybe a case bearing chrysomelid larva?
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
CÔTE D’IVOIRE: MONTAGNES
Site 22-TA, Mont-Tonkoui
1160 m, 07°27'14"N 07°38'07"O
19.XI–2.XII.2022, forêt de nuage
à Parinari, piège à interception
de vol
wasp found in the Labidus spininodis army. actually not sure if the wasp pictured in the last picture is the same species or not
beetle found in the Labidus spininodis army and a picture of the ants just for the reference. the beetle shouldn't be in the picture.
beetle found in the Labidus spininodis army. wonder how the two guests managed to come close in the shot
Interesting paussid beetle tended by Myrmicaria ants, and frantically running around, hence the rather poor photos.
From a soil sample collected by Giulio Cuccodoro.