Blue Meat Ant: Dragging food

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Odorous Ant (Ant: Formicidae Dolichoderinae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Blue Meat Ant (Iridomyrmex lividus)

This Photo:

Dragging food

Thank you Grant Wang for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere

Similar Species: Metallic Blue Ant Spider (Habronestes sp ES01)

This species is

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

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