Myrmecia occidentalis

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Myrmecia occidentalis
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Worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Genus:
Species:
M. occidentalis
Binomial name
Myrmecia occidentalis
Clark, 1943[1]

Myrmecia occidentalis is a species of ant. It belongs to the genus Myrmecia and was described by John S. Clark in 1943. Native to Australia, Myrmecia occidentalis is mainly distributed in the state of Western Australia.[2]

The average worker Myrmecia occidentalis is 11-12 millimetres in length, and the queens are slightly larger at 13 millimetres. The head, gaster and other features are black, mandibles and labrum yellow, and the legs, funiculus, and other features are red. The antennae is the same colour as the mandibles.[3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Myrmecia occidentalis (Clark, 1943)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Myrmecia occidentalis Clark, 1943". Atlas of Living Australia. Govt of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  3. ^ Clark, John (1951). The Formicidae of Australia (Volume 1) (PDF). Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. pp. 218–220.
  4. ^ 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. 1663.[dead link]

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