![]() | Black Big-headed Ant Gaster | Adelaide's Muscle Man Ant S1: Head | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Small Ant (Ant: Formicidae Myrmicinae) | ||||
Species: | Adelaide's Muscle Man Ant (Podomyrma adelaidae) | ||||
This Photo: | S1: Dorsal | ||||
Other name: | Spotted Muscleman Tree Ant | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~7mm long. Found 1.5m off the ground in the flower of a Melaleuca lanceolata bush. Kate Sandiford indicated queens also have the gaster spots, so the Podomyrma sp queen shown below is a different species. | |||||
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