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Mesostruma Brown, 1948

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Overview 
These uncommon ants form small colonies in soil, usually under or between rocks.  They are predacious, foraging primarily on the ground in leaf litter but also occasionally on low vegetation.




This taxon is known from these habitats
The following rows were recorded as a pair from a single record.
Blank entries indicate no information was recorded.
Environment/MacrohabitatSituation/Microhabitat
 Ex. grass tussocks 
 Ex. leaf litter 
 flowering heath 
 Litter 
 litter sample 
 To light 
 traps 
closed mallee berlesate 
dry sclerophyll  
Dry sclerophyll On tree trunk 
Dry sclerophyll pocket between rocks 
dry sclerophyll sugar bait on gum tree 
dry sclerophyll sugar bait on gum tree, at night 
Dry sclerophyll Under rock 
Dry sclerophyll Under rock & in leaf litter 
dry sclerophyll low scrub nest in red soil covered with moss 
dry sclerophyll mallee  
Dry sclerophyll on ridge ex trunk 1.5m fro ground 4pm 
Dry sclerophyll on ridge ex trunk 1m from ground 2.30pm 
Dry sclerophyll, black sandy soil nest went down 4". Under same rock as termites, common Meranoplus sp. & common blackish Crematogaster 
Dry sclerophyll, sparse Between and under lichen covered rock 
Ecualyptus-Callitris woodland in middens of Rhytidoponera metallica 
Grassy clearing in heavy dry sclerophyll Black damp, non sandy soil 
Hawkesbury sandstone  
limestone ridge, mallee on mallee stem 
low dense mallee  
low mallee litter sample 
Low sandstone scrub In damp yellow soil, mossy 
malle honey bait at night on mallee 
mallee  
mallee 8am, 12" off ground 
mallee about 1.5m above ground on mallee trunks, afternoon 
mallee at heney bait, 9pm 
mallee at honey bait, 9pm 
mallee at honey baits, 9pm 
mallee berlesate 
mallee leaf litter 
mallee on mallee, early morning 
mallee and spinifex on sand litter under mallee 
mallee scrub  
Old mallee, sandy soil Litter, berlesate 
open mallee  
open mallee berlesate 
Rainforest  
Rainforest Stick brushings, berlesate 
roadside mallee  
roadside, edge of Casuarina in soil 
Saltbush  
Sandstone scrub, T.tree + lantana, ground cover of green moss nest in soil: yellow sand. nest close to termite galleries, Acropyga australis & Machomyrma froggatti 
soft wet sclerophyll below cliffs in black soil between large rocks, under same rock as Colobostruma colony 
tall gums  
Tree, heath Nocturnal strays 
Wet sclerophyll  
wet sclerophyll, low hills nest in damp, black (not sandy) soil 

 

 

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