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 Strange Ant - ID please
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| vida |
Posted on 30-05-2009 18:58
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Member Location: South Africa Posts: 116 Joined: 28.05.09 |
I found this ant in my garden in South Africa. It was sitting on the underside of a rose. I find the big eyes strange. The front legs have strange sickle like ends that is curled inwards when the ant walks. Can somebody maybe ID?
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 30-05-2009 19:23
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Looks like Dryinidae...
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 31-05-2009 08:23
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Message from Jeroen de Rond, dryinid specialist: Your identification is correct: it is a wingless female of a Gonatopus species. Hosts often are Delphacidae.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-06-2009 23:17
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Great photo - had me thinking for a while but the antennae are wrong for ants ... good call Paul! 
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