Thread subject:
Diptera.info :: Strange Ant - ID please
Posted by
vida
on 30-05-2009 18:58
#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 30-05-2009 19:23
#2
Looks like Dryinidae...
Posted by
Paul Beuk
on 31-05-2009 08:23
#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 05-06-2009 23:17
#4
Great photo - had me thinking for a while but the antennae are wrong for ants ... good call Paul!
