Myrmecia flammicollis

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Myrmecia flammicollis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmeciinae
Genus: Myrmecia
Species:
M. flammicollis
Binomial name
Myrmecia flammicollis
Brown, 1953 [1]

Myrmecia flammicollis is an Australian ant which belongs to the genus Myrmecia . It is native to Australia. They are usually distributed in the north of Queensland. They were described by William Brown in 1953. [2]

Myrmecia flammicollis resembles the M. petiolata . The body back of the Myrmecia flammicollis is black while prothorax is largely or completely an orange-red colour. [3]

References

  1. "Myrmecia flammicollis (Brown, 1953)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  2. "Myrmecia flammicollis Brown, 1953". Atlas of Living Australia . Govt of Australia. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  3. Brown, William (1953). Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia (PDF). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. pp. 23–25.