Baby Bull Ant: Dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Bull Ant (Ant: Formicidae Myrmeciinae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Baby Bull Ant (Myrmecia urens)

This Photo:

🔍Dorsal🔎

Thank you Kate Sandiford for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Tiny, ~6mm! We've never seen a bull ant so small.
This one is unusually hairy, has a green tint all over it's body with the first node (on the petiole) having a splash of red.
It was foraging in a flower of Melaleuca lanceolata at ~9 am, before the heat started.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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