Pheidole sp. (genus)
Seed-harvesting ant at Syndicate, QLD
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| Pheidole sp. (genus) | SimonDunstan | 27 May 2025 | |
| Formicidae (family) | SimonDunstan | 27 May 2025 | |
| Formicidae (family) | JasonPStewart | 26 May 2025 |
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Many many small black ants, including some of their soldier members.
Feeding on the arils surrounding the seeds out of these capsules' fruits on the ground (from the canopy tree above _Didymocheton muelleri_), in this, lowlands wet tropics, dense canopy rainforest. 2015 November 20th 2:02 pm .
I only know that these ants identify to the entomological Ant family : Formicidae.
Please take this family rank identification with 'grains of salt',
check these ants and if you know more, please inform us all of any more identification resolution .
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Location information
- Coordinates 145.323758-16.471419
- Places Syndicate, QLD
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 20 Nov 2015 02:02 PM Recorded on
- JasonPStewart Recorded by
- Eating the red arils around the seeds of Didymocheton muelleri dehisced capsules' (fruits). Associated plant
- Less than 5mm Animal size
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Species information
- Pheidole sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Seed-harvesting ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1141.89m Recorded at altitude
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