![]() | Arid Honey-carrying Ant Major Worker, ventral | Arid Honey-carrying Ant Nest | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Modern Ant (Ant: Formicidae Formicinae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Arid Honey-carrying Ant (Melophorus sp ES01) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Huddle🔎 | ||||
Other name: | Furnace Ant | ||||
Thank you Kate Sandiford for identifying and Peter Slingsby & Emmett Collins-Sussman for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), Coastal Areas and elsewhere ~6mm long. Looks very much like Big-headed Ants, but have only one petiole node putting it in a different sub-family. Kate also said this was a Major Worker. On our iNat post we mentioned "No stinger nor anal hairs.". Emmett responded with "The anal hairs you're thinking of are probably the hairs around the acidopore. All formicines have an acidopore, and hairs around the acidopore are common but not always present. Acidopore" | |||||
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