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	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.
	Copyright © 2021 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 09-Feb-2021
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.