Meat Ant at Aranda, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 23 Mar 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 22 Mar 2019 | KMcCue |
Identify this sighting
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
User's notes
Interesting anthill - a middle eastern variety?
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
24 Mar 2019
It's certainly the normal meat ant Iridomyrmex purpureus, but it's a very unusual nest.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.080428-35.260518
- Places Aranda, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 16 Mar 2019 08:55 AM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
-
Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) KMcCue Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Iridomyrmex purpureus Scientific name
- Meat Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 963.87m Recorded at altitude
- 641 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
