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- Any of various red-coloured ants. [from 8th c.]
- An ant of the genus Myrmica, especially the European red ant or common red ant (Myrmica rubra).
- (US) The pharaoh ant (Monomorium pharaonis).
- (Australia) The meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus), endemic to Australia.
2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51:
Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.
- The red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus), native to southwestern US.
- The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), native to South America, but broadly invasive.
- The European red wood ant (Formica polyctena or Formica pratensis).
- The red bull ant (Myrmecia gulosa).
Myrmica rubra
- Kapampangan: salusad (general)
- Navajo: wóláchííʼ
- Russian: кра́сный мураве́й m (krásnyj muravéj)
- Tagalog: kuwitib (general red ant)
- Myrmica rubra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- Pharaoh ant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Monomorium pharaonis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Red harvester ant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pogonomyrmex barbatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- European red wood ant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Formica polyctena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Formica pratensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Red bull ant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Myrmecia (Formicidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies