![]() | Arid Honey-carrying Ant Petiole | Arid Honey-carrying Ant Head | ![]() | |||
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. | |||||
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