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Orange Tree Ants
Gesomyrmex chaperi
5.94702, 116.781
Field Notes
Description:
An orange ant species I found marching on a tree trunk.
There are 2 ant individuals in this spotting.
A soldier ant and a worker ant.
The first 3 pictures is the soldier ant while the last one is the worker ant.
The soldier ant has smaller eyes than the worker ant, but it's body is larger.
The 2 ants' mandibles are different from each other too.
The soldier ant has a pair of tough mandibles (for biting, fighting) while the worker ant's smaller mandibles are for working.
I'm not sure how large is the worker ant, the soldier ant is 9mm in length (mandible to abdomen tip).
There is a black spot under it's abdomen, or rather inside it.
Habitat:
Trees in Sabah Tea Garden, Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia.
Notes:
I saw a colony of these orange ants marching from the ground up to this tree.
I have never seen this species of ants before so I become interested in them.
I can't photograph them very well because they keep on marching and won't stop.
I then decided to use a twig to provoke this soldier ant because it's mandible is large enough to grab it.
After it caught the end of my stick (little did it know, I'm the one who caught it), I pulled it off the tree for measurement and close-up photography.
After I'm contented with "him", I freed him and let him keep the stick.
>>>Map accuracy : 200m radius.
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