Toothed Spiny Ant: Dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Modern Ant (Ant:Formicidae:Formicinae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Toothed Spiny Ant (Polyrhachis phryne)

This Photo:

🔍Dorsal🔎

Thank you Nigel Main (NMain) for identifying and Kate Sandiford for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~7mm long.
We thought this species was P. patiens but Nigel said the pubescence on the gaster was gold & the surface of the body had a more sculptured texture. It seems the size of the petiolar spines isn't diagnostic. We wonder if it's a sub-species variation.

This species is

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

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