Myrmecia michaelseni

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Myrmecia michaelseni
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmeciinae
Genus: Myrmecia
Species:
M. michaelseni
Binomial name
Myrmecia michaelseni
Forel, 1907

Myrmecia michaelseni is an Australian ant which belongs to the genus Myrmecia . This species is native to Australia. They are mostly distributed and studied in Western Australia. [1]

The average length of a worker ant is 10-12 millimetres long. Queens are 13.5-15 millimetres long, and males are smaller. They are similar to the Jack jumper ant. They are mostly black, but the mandibles, antennae and legs are light brown, and the tarsi is reddish. The colours for the queen is exactly the same as the workers. [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. "Myrmecia michaelseni Forel, 1907". Atlas of Living Australia . Govt of Australia. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  2. Clark, John (1951). The Formicidae of Australia (Volume 1) (PDF). Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. pp. 204–206.
  3. Wheeler, GC (1971). Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pac. p. 250.
  4. Clark, John (1943). A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae) (PDF). Victoria. p. 111. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-08.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)