Posted by vida on 30-05-2009 19:58
#1
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?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 31-05-2009 09:23
#3
Message from Jeroen de Rond, dryinid specialist:
Your identification is correct: it is a wingless female of a Gonatopus species. Hosts often are Delphacidae.
Posted by ChrisR on 06-06-2009 00:17
#4
Great photo - had me thinking for a while but the antennae are wrong for ants ... good call Paul! :)