Meat Ant at Deakin, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 25 Dec 2018 | KimPullen | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 24 Dec 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 23 Dec 2018 | JackyF |
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User's notes
Following on from my inconclusive sighting of 16 December, here is a close-up photo of same ants in same sapling. They are tending small orange lerp-like growths and the ones on the left are tending small black and white objects like tiny insects. The ants look like meat ants. Hairstreak butterflies and pupae were sighted on this sapling last summer.
2 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
26 Dec 2018
The 'small black and white objects' appear to be psyllids and may be a species of Acizzia, many of which are known Acacia feeders.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.103694-35.325259
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 23 Dec 2018 08:01 PM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
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Collections
JackyF Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Iridomyrmex purpureus Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
Additional information
- Small black wattle sapling (Acacia mearnsii) Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Iridomyrmex purpurea
Record quality
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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