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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
	Family:	Small Ant (Ant: Formicidae Myrmicinae)
	Species:	Large Big-headed Ant (Pheidole antipodum)
	This Photo:	Queen: profile
	Thank you Nigel Main for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~13.5mm long. We saw these occasionally flying around us one day. I thought they were beetles. Marie caught this one in her hands and we realised it was an ant. Nigel said it's the largest species of Pheidole in Australia.
	Copyright © 2020-  Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 25-Apr-2020
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.