Camponotus intrepidus
Flumed Sugar Ant at Downer, ACT
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| Camponotus intrepidus | MichaelMulvaney | 4 May 2021 | |
| Unverified | WHall | 29 Mar 2021 |
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User's notes
Created by a Wolf spider? Structure was about 30mm in height.
1 comment
4 May 2021
I checked with Jon Lewis who said that the structure was very likely to have been built by the ant Camponotus intrepidus and gave teh following examples
Camponotus intrepidus (Flumed Sugar Ant)
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/425530
Camponotus intrepidus (Flumed Sugar Ant)
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/425530
Location information
- Coordinates 149.095475-35.270472
- Maps Black Mountain
- Places Downer, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 28 Mar 2021 01:12 PM Recorded on
- WHall Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- WHall Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Camponotus intrepidus Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
Species information
- Camponotus intrepidus Scientific name
- Flumed Sugar Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1149.3m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
Quality score
4 / 7
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- More than one media file
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location