18x25 mm cabochon (on white bottom)

  -- 1 piece Lot
 

Real Big-head Ant - Pheidologeton diversus specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, indestructible and transparent.

Safe,authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Ant right at your fingertips!

Length of the Ant body is 1.7 cm (0.7 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 18x25x12 mm (0.7x1.0x0.5 inch).

Weight of the lucite block is 4 g and 20 g with packing box.

It can be used for rings, pendants, bracelets and other crafts. And it is also is a very good collectible item for every body.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.
 

It is a very good collectible item for every body. 

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Big-head Ant - Pheidologeton diversus

Classification

Distribution: Tropical and sub-tropical Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan)

Description: Total length between 1.3 and 2.5 mm in minor workers. Body color yellowish brown to reddish brown in minor workers: reddish brown to blackish brown in majors. In minor workers: head rectangular with weakly convex posterior margin in full face view; mandibles each with 5 teeth; antennal scapes short, not exceeding posterior margin of head; each of the apical two funicular segments long, their combined length longer than the rest of funiculus; promesonotum relatively strongly convex in profile; metanotal groove deeply incised; dorsum of propodeum convex; propodeal spines long, with acute apices. In major workers: head proportionately large, almost square, with convex posterior margin in frontal view; anterior margin of clypeus straight, with a shallow median notch; mandibles large, triangular, with an acute apical tooth; masticatory margins without distinct teeth; eyes relatively small; ocelli present; antennal scapes 0.5 times as long as head; subpetiolar process present.