ID on an ant please?
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ID on an ant please?
Here it is, the back seems to be covered with silver hair. Any idea?
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Planapo
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Nice animal! What I can see makes me think of genus Polyrhachis. AFAIK, this genus, with around 100 species in AUS, is rather common down the hill there at your place. But don´t take this as an ID, only as an "idea" or guess, I am not familiar with your Ozzie ant fauna. For a secure ID mostly one has to have a closer look at the specimen with a magnifying glass or a microscope to recognize the decisive features.
--Betty
Nice animal! What I can see makes me think of genus Polyrhachis. AFAIK, this genus, with around 100 species in AUS, is rather common down the hill there at your place. But don´t take this as an ID, only as an "idea" or guess, I am not familiar with your Ozzie ant fauna. For a secure ID mostly one has to have a closer look at the specimen with a magnifying glass or a microscope to recognize the decisive features.
--Betty
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Gordon C. Snelling
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