Ochetellus sp. (genus)
Black House Ant at Holt, ACT
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| Ochetellus sp. (genus) | JonLewis | 1 Jun 2021 | |
| Anonychomyrma sp. (genus) | Roger | 1 Jun 2021 |
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User's notes
Some of the ants were moving their lava to another location. One of the 3 ants is different to the others in abdomen shape and size, is this a queen?
2 comments
1 Jun 2021
Hi Roger, these are nice photos of Ochetellus, which doesn't get recorded much on CNM because it is a pretty small ant. They are not a very distinctive ant, except in profile, where the last major part of the body has a sharp angle dropping down before it attaches to the peduncle and then the abdomen ("gaster" in ant talk), which you can see well in the right hand ant in your second photo. The left hand ant in the same photo has a very large gaster because it has been foraging for honeydew from sap-sucking insects and the gaster is swollen up like a balloon as a way of carrying it all back to the nest - this is common in ants. Cheers, Jon
Location information
- Coordinates 148.980983-35.245020
- Altitude 597.1m
- Maps Woodstock Nature Reserve
- Places Holt, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 1 Jun 2021 12:36 PM Recorded on
- Roger Recorded by
- Less than 5mm Animal size
Collections
- Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Roger Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Ochetellus sp. (genus)
Species information
- Ochetellus sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Black House Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 676.19m Recorded at altitude
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