Spiny Cautious Ant
Colony
Adelaide Hills
Mono Ant
Profile, petiole
 
                      
Mono Ant (Monomorium kiliani)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Small Ant (Ant: Formicidae Myrmicinae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Mono Ant (Monomorium kiliani)
This Photo:     Dorsal
Synonym: Chelaner kiliani

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

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere

Copyright © 2011-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 15-May-2011
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.