Papyrius nitidus

Shining Coconut Ant at Red Hill, ACT

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Identification history

	Papyrius nitidus	9 Aug 2018	MichaelMulvaney
	Papyrius sp.	11 Mar 2018	MichaelMulvaney

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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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Location information

Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
Places Red Hill, ACT

Sighting information

101 - 1,000 Abundance
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) MichaelMulvaney Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

Papyrius nitidus Scientific name
Shining Coconut Ant Common name
Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
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