jeckel's Identifications

This queen is not T. curvispinosus, though the workers running around in this acorn are. She appears to have the inset antennal depression/scrobe expected for a T. americanus slavemaker/kidnapper/pirate ant.

Found in a rotting log on an entomology student field trip. Specimen maintained at Providence College. Could be S. metazytes instead of S. pulchella, but I believe the flagellate hairs on the dorsum and curvature of the hairs on the clypeal margins match the expectations for S. pulchella (curving toward the mandibles laterally but away from the mandibles on the anterior margin).