Iridomyrmex purpureus
Meat Ant at Charleys Forest, NSW
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| Iridomyrmex purpureus | SimonDunstan | 13 Jan 2025 | |
| Unverified | arjay | 21 Jan 2024 |
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User's notes
Maybe an ant. It was digging a hole and eventually vanished covering the hole with the disturbed earth.
2 comments
21 Jan 2024
Well spotted - an Iridomyrmex queen, newly mated and digging a nest to begin her life as the founder of a new ant colony.
21 Jan 2024
I was really pleased to see this because we often see small patches of disturbed earth and sometimes it is beetles or crickets excavating but this time it wasn't.
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Charleys Forest, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- arjay Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- arjay NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Iridomyrmex purpureus Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
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
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Synonyms
Iridomyrmex purpurea
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