page_title: List of ants of Australia
section_title: Myrmecia
hierarchical_section_title: List of ants of Australia / Myrmecia
caption_attribution_description: English: Red Bull Ant (Myrmecia gulosa) on the Old Gibber Fire Trail, Myall Lakes National Park, Australia. Deutsch: Bulldoggenameise (Myrmecia gulosa) auf dem Old Gibber Fire Trail, Myall Lakes Nationalpark, Australien.
context_page_description: The ant fauna of Australia is large and diverse. As of 1999, Australia and its external territories represent 1,275 described taxa divided into 103 genera and 10 subfamilies. No publication since 1999 has estimated the current diversity of Australia's ant fauna, although it has considerably increased in size as the total amount of subfamilies in Australia today is around twelve. Very few species in the country are known to be invasive.
  Australia is home to two-thirds of the worlds subfamilies, one-third of known genera, 15% of all described species, and some genera found in Australia can be found nowhere else or they are found in neighboring countries instead. Australia's ant diversity is smaller than Central America, South America and Southeast Asia, it has roughly the same number of genera and species as the Orient and surpasses the amount of ants known in Europe, North America, Northern Asia and Northern Africa. The state of Queensland has the greatest diversity of ants in the world, with more than 1,400 species known within its borders. The total amount of species known in Australia could possibly be over 6,500, with only one in five ants being described.
context_section_description: Myrmecia aberrans Forel, 1900 – Wide jawed bullant
  Myrmecia acuta Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia analis Mayr, 1862
  Myrmecia arnoldi Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia athertonensis Forel, 1915
  Myrmecia auriventris Mayr, 1870
  Myrmecia banksi Taylor, 2015
  Myrmecia borealis Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia brevinoda Forel, 1910 – Giant bull ant
  Myrmecia browningi Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia callima (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia cephalotes (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia chasei Forel, 1894
  Myrmecia chrysogaster (Clark, 1943) – Toothed bullant
  Myrmecia clarki Crawley, 1922
  Myrmecia comata Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia croslandi Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia cydista (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia desertorum Wheeler, 1915
  Myrmecia dichospila Clark, 1938
  Myrmecia dimidiata Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia dispar (Clark, 1951)
  Myrmecia elegans (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia erecta Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia esuriens Fabricius, 1804 – Tasmanian Inchman
  Myrmecia eungellensis Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia exigua (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia fabricii Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia ferruginea Mayr, 1876
  Myrmecia flammicollis Brown, 1953
  Myrmecia flavicoma Roger, 1861
  Myrmecia forceps Roger, 1861
  Myrmecia forficata (Fabricius, 1787) – Inchmen ant
  Myrmecia formosa Wheeler, 1933
  Myrmecia froggatti Forel, 1910
  Myrmecia fucosa Clark, 1934
  Myrmecia fulgida Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia fulviculis Forel, 1913
  Myrmecia fulvipes Roger, 1861
  Myrmecia fuscipes Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia gilberti Forel, 1910
  Myrmecia gratiosa Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia gulosa (Fabricius, 1775) – Giant red bull ant
  Myrmecia harderi Forel, 1910
  Myrmecia haskinsorum Taylor, 2015
  Myrmecia hilli (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia hirsuta Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia imaii Taylor, 2015
  Myrmecia impaternata Taylor, 2015
  Myrmecia infima Forel, 1900
  Myrmecia inquilina Douglas & Brown, 1959
  Myrmecia loweryi Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia ludlowi Crawley, 1922
  Myrmecia luteiforceps Wheeler, 1933
  Myrmecia mandibularis Smith, 1858 – Toothless bullant
  Myrmecia maura Wheeler, 1933
  Myrmecia michaelseni Forel, 1907
  Myrmecia midas Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia minuscula Forel, 1915
  Myrmecia mjobergi Forel, 1915
  Myrmecia nigra Forel, 1907
  Myrmecia nigriceps Mayr, 1862 – Black-headed bull ant
  Myrmecia nigriscapa Roger, 1861
  Myrmecia nigrocincta Smith, 1858
  Myrmecia nobilis (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia occidentalis (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia pavida Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia petiolata Emery, 1895
  Myrmecia picta Smith, 1858
  Myrmecia picticeps Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia piliventris Smith, 1858 – Golden-tailed bull ant
  Myrmecia pilosula Smith, 1858 – Jack jumper ant
  Myrmecia potteri (Clark, 1951)
  Myrmecia pulchra Clark, 1929
  Myrmecia pyriformis Smith, 1858 – Inch ant
  Myrmecia queenslandica Forel, 1915
  Myrmecia regularis Crawley, 1925
  Myrmecia rowlandi Forel, 1910
  Myrmecia rubicunda (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia rubripes Clark, 1951
  Myrmecia rufinodis Smith, 1858
  Myrmecia rugosa Wheeler, 1933
  Myrmecia simillima Smith, 1858
  Myrmecia subfasciata Viehmeyer, 1924
  Myrmecia swalei Crawley, 1922
  Myrmecia tarsata Smith, 1858
  Myrmecia tepperi Emery, 1898 – Bucktoothed bullant
  Myrmecia testaceipes (Clark, 1943)
  Myrmecia tridentata Ogata & Taylor, 1991
  Myrmecia urens Lowne, 1865 – Baby bull ant
  Myrmecia varians Mayr, 1876
  Myrmecia vindex Smith, 1858
caption: Myrmecia gulosa
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