Meat Ant at Tharwa, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 13 Jan 2025 | SimonDunstan | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 9 Oct 2024 | SimonDunstan | ||
| Camponotus sp. (genus) | 9 May 2017 | KimPullen | ||
| Unidentified | 5 May 2017 | MichaelBedingfield |
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User's notes
Size - body length 16mm; on the western side of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Tharwa.
1 comment
KimPullen
wrote:
10 May 2017
A dealate (de-winged) queen. Not easy to identify to species, but could be C. suffusus.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.067591-35.504736
- Altitude 581.0m
- Maps Point Hut to Tharwa
- Places Tharwa, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 23 Mar 2017 09:16 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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MichaelBedingfield NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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
- 630 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
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