Meat Ant at Hackett, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 19 Dec 2018 | JonLewis | ||
| Camponotus aeneopilosus | 13 Dec 2018 | AlisonMilton |
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3 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
20 Dec 2018
Hi Alison - nice photos but the ant looks like a meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus. Do you know the plant the ants are on? Cheers, Jon
AlisonMilton
wrote:
20 Dec 2018
No I don't know the plant but can go back for an identification. Quite a lot of insects on this same plant.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.107233-35.273652
- Altitude 636.5m
- Maps ANBG
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 11 Dec 2018 09:34 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
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
- 623 images trained Machine learning
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