Myrmecia pavida is a bull ant species which live in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Workers and Queens averagely are around 25–30 mm (0.984251968503937–1.2 ). This species can be found throughout all of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

, where their head and thorax and reddish, and the abdomen is black. Myrmecia pavida, like all of the other Myrmecia

Myrmecia

Myrmecia, often called bulldog ants, bull ants, inch ants, sergeant ants, jumper ants or jack-jumpers , is a genus of ants. Bull ants can grow to over in length, with the smallest species long...

species, has excellent vision, and can spot people from 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ) away, and are highly aggressive.