Jumping ant mimic

Observed by Wynand Uys
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(Added to iSpot on 24th January 2013)
Jumping ant mimic
Jumping ant mimic 2
Jumping ant mimic 3

About 3mm
Moves about with forelegs raised and waving like ant antennae.
Hanging out with black ants

Location: Blyde River Near Hoedspruit
Identifications
Species interactions

No interactions present.

Comments

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25 January 2013 - 1:31pm — tony rebelo
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I presume the posterior laterals are to stop it from being sneaked up from by ants. Hanging around ant columns and nests must be rather risky ...

Ja

25 January 2013 - 2:31pm — Wynand Uys
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The, as yet, unidentified black ants it hangs out with are very bitey.

Female of Natta horizontalis.

13 July 2013 - 8:40pm — urmakuzInvertebrates expert

Female of Natta horizontalis.

That's great

14 July 2013 - 2:09pm — Wynand Uys
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Thanks, but please add a revised identification to this observation. If you can provide a reference of some kind, we can then hopefully look it up, educate ourselves and agree with your identification. That is how identifications become more accurate and how the knowledge base grows.