Papyrius nitidus
Shining Coconut Ant at Red Hill, ACT
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| Papyrius nitidus | MichaelMulvaney | 9 Aug 2018 | |
| Papyrius sp. | MichaelMulvaney | 11 Mar 2018 |
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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
- MichaelMulvaney Recorded by
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- MichaelMulvaney Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Papyrius nitidus Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
Species information
- Papyrius nitidus Scientific name
- Shining Coconut Ant Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 860.96m Recorded at altitude
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