Iridomyrmex purpureus

Meat Ant at Hughes, ACT

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Location information

• Coordinates 149.100198-35.327307
• Altitude 625.4m
• Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
• Places Hughes, ACT

Sighting information

• 1 Abundance
• 24 Nov 2019 07:36 AM Recorded on
• JonSteinbeck Recorded by

• Collections

  BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects

Additional information

• Sugar Ant Associated animal
• 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
• 702 images trained Machine learning
• External link More information

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• Verified by an expert moderator
• Nearby sighting(s) of same species
• GPS evidence of location
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