单词 | greenhead ant |
释义 | > as lemmasgreenhead ant 5. Australian. The common ant Rhytidoponera metallica (formerly Ectatomma metallicum), which is dark with a metallic green sheen and a painful sting. More fully greenhead ant. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Ectatomma (greenhead) greenhead1879 kelep1904 1879 Queenslander 20 Sept. 365/2 You..find you have pitched your bed on or near a nest of ‘green-heads’ or soldier ants. 1907 W. W. Froggatt Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) 93 The ‘Green~head’, Ectatomma metallicum, is a common ant of medium size that lives in small communities under stones or logs. 1970 E. F. Riek in Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) xxxvii. 910/2 One specimen is recorded from the nest of Ectatomma metallicum, the green~head ant. 2009 Australian (Nexis) 21 Jan. 31 Adult Australian green-head ants were offered sucrose solutions of strengths ranging from weak to strong. < as lemmas |
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