Iridomyrmex purpureus
Meat Ant at Tharwa, ACT
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| Iridomyrmex purpureus | SimonDunstan | 13 Jan 2025 | |
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | SimonDunstan | 9 Oct 2024 | |
| Camponotus sp. (genus) | KimPullen | 9 May 2017 | |
| Unverified | MichaelBedingfield | 5 May 2017 |
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User's notes
Size - body length 16mm; on the western side of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Tharwa.
1 comment
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
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- MichaelBedingfield NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands 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
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Synonyms
Iridomyrmex purpurea
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