Meat Ant at Downer, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 12 Oct 2024 | SimonDunstan | ||
| Iridomyrmex sp. (genus) | 1 Apr 2021 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 31 Mar 2021 | TimL |
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Presumably a Queen, having just started to build a nest.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.105842-35.274155
- Altitude 638.0m
- Maps ANBG
- Places Downer, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Mar 2021 12:21 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) TimL Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm 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
- 623 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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