Muscleman tree ant at Yass River, NSW
Identification history
| Podomyrma adelaidae | 22 Sep 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Formicidae (family) | 22 Sep 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Formicidae (family) | 21 Sep 2019 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Podomyrma adelaidae | 16 Sep 2019 | SenexRugosus |
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User's notes
All individuals had the two distinctive yellow blobs on their abdomens.
3 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
21 Sep 2019
The suggestion of Formicidae sp. (family) was made merely to test if SenexRugosus email alerts are working.
SenexRugosus
wrote:
23 Sep 2019
Thanks Jon. This one literally crawled onto me while I was using the tree to stabilise a telephoto shot of some birds. :-)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.153333-34.899197
- Maps Rugosa
- Places Yass River, NSW
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 16 Sep 2019 01:44 PM Recorded on
- SenexRugosus Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) SenexRugosus Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Eucalyptus rossii Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Podomyrma adelaidae Scientific name
- Muscleman tree ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 654.8m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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