1 Possum Ant at Hackett, ACT
Identification history
| Myrmecorhynchus emeryi | 31 Aug 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 31 Aug 2019 | TimL |
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User's notes
Thanks to Marcus Leach for the initial sighting of this ant with its live prey. There were at least 10 of these ants on a trail up the tree but only this one had prey. Not sure what the prey is. A small winged insect.
2 comments
TimL
wrote:
1 Sep 2019
Hi Christine. Thanks for this, Shorty's sighting does appear to show the same type of winged prey insect as the one in this sighting. The trail of ants in this sighting was going up a Eucalypt and this ant with its prey was heading down the tree. I guess that the winged prey was found at high level in the Eucalypt. I haven't seen one of these before and don't know what it is. Tim
Location information
- Coordinates 149.104788-35.273550
- Altitude 669.0m
- Maps ANBG
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 28 Aug 2019 12:53 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Myrmecorhynchus emeryi Scientific name
- Possum Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 822.91m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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