Myrmecia fuscipes

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Myrmecia fuscipes
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Myrmecia fuscipes worker
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmeciinae
Genus: Myrmecia
Species:
M. fuscipes
Binomial name
Myrmecia fuscipes
Clark, 1951

Myrmecia fuscipes is an Australian ant which belongs to the genus Myrmecia . This species is native to Australia. Their distribution is heavily observed in South Australia and Western Australia. [1]

The average size of a worker ant is 20-21 millimetres in length. The head and gaster are black, the antennae, thorax, node, and other features are a yellowish-red colour. Mandibles are yellow, and the anterior legs are light brown, and the middle and posterior pair is dark brown. It can also range to an almost black like colour in some cases. [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Myrmecia fuscipes Clark, 1951". Atlas of Living Australia . Govt of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Clark, John (1951). The Formicidae of Australia (Volume 1) (PDF). Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. pp. 62–63.
  3. ↑ R.W Taylor, K Ogata (1991). Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) (PDF). Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection. p. 1657.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ Brown, William (1953). Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia (PDF). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. p. 25.


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