Arid Honey-carrying Ant: Mandibles

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Modern Ant (Ant: Formicidae Formicinae)

Species:

Arid Honey-carrying Ant (Melophorus sp)

This Photo:

Mandibles

Thank you Kate Sandiford for identifying and Peter Slingsby for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Looks very much like Big-headed Ants, but have only one petiole node putting it in the a different sub-family.
Kate also said this was a Major Worker.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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