Iridomyrmex purpureus

Meat Ant at Symonston, ACT

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Location information

• Coordinates 149.135802-35.352912
• Maps Callum Brae
• Places Symonston, ACT

Sighting information

• 101 - 1,000 Abundance
• 25 Mar 2017 02:29 PM Recorded on
• MatthewFrawley Recorded by

• Collections

  Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) MatthewFrawley Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

• Box Mistletoe Associated plant
• 12mm to 25mm Animal size
• Unknown Gender

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
• 662 images trained Machine learning
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