Iridomyrmex purpureus
Meat Ant at Red Hill, ACT
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| Iridomyrmex purpureus | MichaelBedingfield | 9 Aug 2016 | |
| Acacia dealbata | RobParnell | 25 Jun 2016 |
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User's notes
Lerp Insects feeding on Silver Wattle and being tendered by meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus)
2 comments
26 Jun 2016
Hi Rob. We will be accepting insect sightings soon, in the next few months. Would you prefer that this sighting be recorded as an insect sighting rather than an acacia?
27 Jun 2016
I think it would be better as an insect sighting. (Michael Mulvaney asked me to put it up)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.113073-35.325641
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Red Hill, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 17 Apr 2016 12:00 AM Recorded on
- RobParnell Recorded by
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
Collections
- RobParnell Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Iridomyrmex purpureus Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
Species information
- Iridomyrmex purpureus Scientific name
- Meat Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 963.87m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Iridomyrmex purpurea
Record quality
Quality score
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- More than one media file
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location