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Odontomachus cephalotes
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

photograph © Alex Wild 2004

Odontomachus trap-jaw ants are common insects in tropical habitats around the world.  Here a worker ant forages in a rotting log in an Australian rainforest.

 
Australia, QLD: Daintree National Park, Cape Tribulation Section.
Emmagen Creek, 4.5 km NNW Cape Tribulation
28.viii.2004, 16º02'S 145º27'E, 20m
Rainforest, ex rotting log.
#AW2566, voucher specimens deposited at ALWC


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