This ant has its nest in a large fallen Yellow Box Branch, with chewed wood observed in the main cracks of the log. When I disturbed the chewed wood covering, ants emerged, smelling faintly of coconut, but not nearly as strong as the coconut ant and this ant did not have the same woody-soil look or tree base fringing nests as content ants. It was milking the same scale and leafhopper ants that I have observed coconut ants attending. This ant moved quicker, had more red in their body and a different nest construction to Papyrius nitridus
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