Queen from observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170889830 (hence the same date and location) has raised a couple of workers, after adopting a pupa of C. festinus; she needed that extra help. Whether the queens of C. satan are temporary parasites is still unknown, but it seems that most queens do not raise a colony independently.
These should be the second known workers of this species raised in captivity, as well as the first photographs of workers published on iNaturalist. Awesome!
This colony is in possession and was photographed by David K. These photographs are posted with permission of the author.
The absence of head and thorax hairs eliminate cinerea, meadowy habitat eliminates picea, and the propodeum is too shallow for gagates, absolutely not lemani thats obvious. Its fusca
Yeah thats the dimorphism we want