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- Black Tree Ant
 - Tetraponera punctulata, body length 15mm, subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae
- The is the larger ant species we found outside Bulldog
Ants subfamily. They are black in colour, have elongate, slender bodies
and large, oval eyes. They usually found on leaves or tree trunks.
 - Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest on Nov 2007.
 
 - Reference:
- 1. Ants - subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae
- lifeunseen.com,
by Nick Monaghan, 2007.
- 2. Subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae -
Australian Ants
Online, CSIRO Entomology, 2001.
- 3. Tetraponera spp. -
Australian Insect Common
Names, CSIRO, 2005.
- 4. Tetraponera
punctulata Smith, 1877 - Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology,
2007.
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- We cannot identified the following ants yet. Please advise
if you know what is those species. Thank you.
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- Large Brown Ant
 - ?sp., body length 15mm
- We found this large ant in our backyard once. It is shiny dark
brown in colour. We found it in late spring.
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