1 Shield Ant at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Meranoplus sp. (genus) | 27 Feb 2020 | JonLewis | ||
| Meranoplus sp. (genus) | 27 Feb 2020 | CathB |
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User's notes
Quite a few of these around on this day, and I managed to get a reasonable photo of the details of the shield. And one even measured itself!
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.073630-35.268842
- Altitude 636.7m
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 17 Feb 2020 05:10 PM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Less than 5mm Animal size
Species information
- Meranoplus sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Shield Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 690.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
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