Solenopsids

A solenopsid is the proper name for a member of the society formed by a species of sapient solenopsis ant in the Second Carboniferous.

Description
Adult Solenopsids are four to five feet in body length.

Ants, especially those with more generalized abilities and predatory lifestyles, thrived all through the Anthropocene and into the Second Carboniferous. On average, most ants in the Second Carboniferous are much larger than their early Anthropocene counterparts, and range from one to five feet in body length. Larger ants with larger brain capacities became more intelligent as a result.

Society
Solenopsids are eusocial. They communicate using a pheromone network and are completely altruistic within their colonies. Their colonies consist of many workers, soldiers, and majors, with one egg-laying queen.

As a distinct species, Solenopsids evolved from a smaller, less intelligent ancestor somewhere on Pangea Proxima 1 and have existed in scattered colonies for much of the Second Carboniferous.

History
Because of the biological communication barrier, salticids and Solenopsids tend to struggle to understand each other. This, along with the natural territorial aggression possessed by ants, has led to a number of conflicts throughout Terran salticid history. In the Terran Mingle, Solenopsids were considered the same as any other dangerous predators and often hunted by salticids, who eliminated the majority of colonies. Eventually only one allied group of supercolonies was left and, using a geographical advantage, was able to aggressively expand its territory to cover the Eurasian Mountains and the area immediately surrounding them.

In about 600 PT, Portia and Vast Mopsus allied together to fight a two-front war and drive the Solenopsids into the Eurasian Mountains.