Large Big-headed Ant
King, profile		Ellura
Large Big-headed Ant
King, ventral		 
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Large Big-headed Ant (Pheidole antipodum)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Small Ant (Ant: Formicidae Myrmicinae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Large Big-headed Ant (Pheidole antipodum)
This Photo:     🔍King, Head🔎
Thank you Nigel Main for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~13.5mm long.
We saw these occasionally flying around us one day. We thought they were beetles. Marie caught this one in her hands and we realised it was an ant.
Nigel said it's the largest species of Pheidole in Australia.
Copyright © 2023-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 01-Jun-2023
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.