Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Formicidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenoptera Subfamily Myrmeciinae | |
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Myrmecia occidentalis is species of ant. It belongs to the Myrmecia genus, and was described by Clark in 1943. Native to Australia, Myrmecia occidentalis is mainly distributed in Western Australia.
Myrmecia occidentalis length for an average worker ant 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 colour The antennae is the same colour as the mandibles.
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