Iridomyrmex purpureus

Meat Ant at Deakin, ACT

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Location information

• Coordinates 149.103393-35.326112
• Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
• Places Deakin, ACT

Sighting information

• 101 - 1,000 Abundance
• 2 Nov 2020 03:18 PM Recorded on
• JackyF Recorded by

• Collections

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

Additional information

• 5mm to 12mm Animal size
• Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour

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
• 647 images trained Machine learning
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