Alex WildFound a nest of one of my favorites! A true oddball. Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus, the red-headed spider ant.
A gallery of Australian spider ants, Leptomyrmex.
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https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Leptomyrmex/
Leptomyrmex - Alex Wild
is a large, leggy, often colorful genus restricted to eastern Australia, New Guinea, and New Caledonia, with one relictual species in central Brazil. The skittish movements and long legs of these distinctive insects give them the common name "spider ants". Some workers in each nest specialize as living storage containers called repletes, their abdomens greatly distended.
The spider ant Leptomyrmex ruficeps is one of Australia's most charming insects.
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