Iridomyrmex purpureus

Meat Ant at Cotter River, ACT

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Location information

• Coordinates 148.833755-35.319557
• Maps Lower Cotter Catchment
• Places Cotter River, ACT

Sighting information

• 1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
• 21 Mar 2022 03:21 PM Recorded on
• Christine Recorded by

• Collections

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

Additional information

• 5mm to 12mm 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
• 662 images trained Machine learning
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