Leptomyrmex
is a large, leggy, often colorful genus restricted to eastern Australia, New Guinea, and New Caledonia. The skittish movements and long legs of these distinctive insects give them the common name "spider ants". Some workers in each nest specialize as living storage containers called repletes, their abdomens greatly distended.
Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest.
Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest.
Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
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