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- Ants in this subfamily range from small and to large. Workers are generally forage on the ground, and some specialise on a very limited range of prey.
Many species have powerful and painful stings used for subduing prey and
defence against intruders.
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- For the Ponerinae ants the mesosoma is attached to the gaster with a single segment. The gaster usually has a distinct impression
between the first and second segments. There is the sting at the tip of
their gaster.
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- Green Head Ant, Metallic Pony Ant
 - Rhytidoponera metallica, body length 7mm
- Green-head ants are black in colour and commonly found in gardens. They are the
most common ants in Australia. They move slowly and usually found foraging
alone on ground or low vegetations. They are not aggressive and have weak stink. However, I
have a painful sting experience for I had put my bare foot over their nest.
They build their nest in soil openly or under rocks. More pictures and
information please click on here.
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Unidentified Ants in this subfamily.
- We cannot identified the following ants yet, although we believe they are
in this subfamily. Please advise
if you know what is those species. Thank you.
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- Black Ant
  - ? sp., body length 10mm, 6mm
- In a late spring afternoon, we found many winged female and male black ants
used our rubbish bin top as meeting place.
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  - ?sp., body length 5mm
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