Myrmecia regularis
| Myrmecia regularis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Genus: | Myrmecia |
| Species: | M. regularis |
| Binomial name | |
| Myrmecia regularis Crawley, 1925 | |
Myrmecia regularis is an Australian ant which belongs to the Myrmecia genus. This species is native to Australia. They are mostly distributed in Western Australia and around Perth.[1]
The length of a worker is around 14-20 millimetres long. The queens are usually the same size as the larger workers at 18-20 millimetres long, as with males which can reach 15-17 millimetres in length. The length of the mandibles excluding the males which do not have that characteristic of a worker or queen bull ant is 3.6 millimetres. The main colour is a bright brownish red. Whole of head and thorax is a bright maghogany red. Mandibles and scapes are shaded with brown, and the gasters are black.[2][3][4]
References
- ↑ "Myrmecia regularis Crawley, 1925". Atlas of Living Australia. Govt of Australia. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- ↑ Clark, John (1951). The Formicidae of Australia (Volume 1). Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. pp. 51–53.
- ↑ Clark, John (1925). The ants of Victoria. Part II. Melbourne, Victoria. p. 579.
- ↑ Wheeler, W.M (1933). Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 25.