Bullet ant proboscis

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Bullet ant proboscis. Macroscopic Solutions. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Bullet ant or paraponera clavata is a species of ant named on account of its powerful and potent venomous sting. It inhabits humid lowland rainforests from Nicaragua and the extreme east of Honduras and south to Paraguay. A proboscis is the elongated appendage from the head of an invertebrate usually it refers to the tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking. Width of image 7 millimetres

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