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 unicolor
Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Leptomyrmex unicolor
Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
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