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Amblyoponine Ant

Amblyopone australis

About

A primitive-looking subterranean ant from Australia with small eyes and pale coloring. It hunts chilopods in deep soil and has the characteristic dracula ant larval feeding behavior.

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Did You Know?

They retain many ancestral features thought to be similar to the earliest ants that evolved over 100 million years ago.