Adelaide's Muscle Man Ant S1, head | Adelaide's Muscle Man Ant S1, ventral | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Small Ant (Ant: Formicidae Myrmicinae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Adelaide's Muscle Man Ant (Podomyrma adelaidae) | ||||
This Photo: | S2, head | ||||
Other name: | Spotted Muscleman Tree Ant | ||||
Thank you Kate Sandiford, Asimakis Patitsas & Emmett Collins-Sussman for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland 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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