Myrmecia fuscipes

These ants are visual predators. Typical encounters with even a solitary forager shows that they are a formidable and aggressive species.

Identification
Myrmecia desertorum, Myrmecia fuscipes, Myrmecia gratiosa, Myrmecia nigriceps and Myrmecia vindex are all large to very large, reddish ants with red, brown or black heads and a black gaster.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Myrmecia fuscipes Clark, 1951: 62, fig. 39 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia).
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: holotype Australia: South Australia, Port Lincoln, xii.1936 (J. Clark); paratypes with same data.
 * Type-depository: ANIC.
 * Junior synonym of desertorum: Brown, 1953j: 25; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8; Taylor, 1987a: 42.
 * Status as species: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1637 (in key), 1657; Bolton, 1995b: 271; Heterick, 2009: 121.
 * Distribution: Australia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Ogata K. and Taylor R.W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae), Journal of Natural History, 25: 1623-1673