Myrmecia froggatti is an Australian ant which belongs to the genus Myrmecia. This species is endemic to Australia. This species is distributed throughout all areas of New South Wales and elsewhere up north and south.[1]
| Myrmecia froggatti | |
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| Myrmecia froggatti worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Genus: | Myrmecia |
| Species: | M. froggatti
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| Binomial name | |
| Myrmecia froggatti Forel, 1910
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The length for the workers is around 11–12 millimetres long. Queens are 14.5 millimetres and length for males are smaller, but the length is not precisely known. They are dark red bull ants. The gaster is black, legs and front of the face is brownish black; the mandibles, antennae, and tarsi is yellow. The mandibles are notably small, which is similar with the M. aberrans.[2][3][4][5]
References
edit- ^ "Myrmecia froggatti Forel, 1910". Atlas of Living Australia. Govt of Australia. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- ^ Clark, John (1951). The Formicidae of Australia (Volume 1) (PDF). Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. pp. 128–129.
- ^ 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. 1643.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Clark, John (1943). A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae) (PDF). Victoria. p. 96. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-08.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Wheeler, W.M (1933). Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 52.