Subfamily Myrmicinae - Myrmicine ants
Myrmicinae is the largest ants subfamily in Australia. Myrmicines range greatly in size, with the smallest about 1 mm long and the largest up to 10 mm.
For the Myrmicines ants the mesosoma is attached to the gaster by two distinct segments. There is the sting at the tip of their gaster.
- Muscleman Tree-ant
- Podomyrma gratiosa, body length 10mm
- The ants are brown in colour with black abdomen. Their nest is in a live tree trunk. We recorded how those ants caught a bug. Details please click on here.
- Valentine Ant
- Crematogaster laeviceps, body length 5mm
- Those ants have the heart-shaped gaster so their name Valentine Ants. Please also check this page for more pictures and information.
- Bicoloured Pennant Ant
- Tetramorium bicarinatum, body length 5mm
- We sometimes found these ants in our backyards.
- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife of Greater Brisbane - New edition, Published by Queensland Museum 2007, p168.
- Unknown Brown Ant
- ? sp., body length 5mm
- Pictures taken in Karawatha Forest, August 2007.
- Reference and Link:
- 1. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p288.
- 2. Podomyrma - myrmecos.net, 2005.
- 3.Tetramorium - myrmecos.net, 2005.
- 2.Crematogaster - myrmecos.net, 2005.
