Jumbuck Sugar Ant
Minor Worker, Petiole & Back
Jumbuck Sugar Ant
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| Jumbuck Sugar Ant Minor Worker, Petiole & Back | | Jumbuck Sugar Ant Colour Difference inside | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Modern Ant (Ant: Formicidae Formicinae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Jumbuck Sugar Ant (Camponotus ephippium ssp ephippium)| This Photo: | Minor Worker, Face | Thank you Peter Slingsby for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: The shape of the back, face and the petiole are diagnostic. This is a minor worker and is ~9mm long. There are no pictures of this species anywhere on the net, so it's taken years to finally find out what it is; using this excellent, ameteur friendly key from the SA museum We just found a major worker for the first time and are pleased to be able to show a comparision shot, as well as diagnostics for the major worker cast of this species It was ~13mm long. The minor worker is surprisingly hairy in comparision.
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