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Species Wasmannia auropunctata - Little Fire Ant

Unknown Ant - Wasmannia auropunctata - female

Wasmannia auropunctata? on Sabal palm - Wasmannia auropunctata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)

Family Formicidae (Ants)

Subfamily Myrmicinae

Tribe Attini ("Higher" myrmicines - no group name)

Genus Wasmannia

Species auropunctata (Little Fire Ant)

Other Common Names

Electric ant

Numbers

native to the Neotropics, adventive in our area (known from FL only)(1)

Internet References

AntWeb

Ants of Costa Rica

U of F

Invasive.org

Works Cited

1.	Exotic ants in Florida Deyrup M., Davis L., Cover S. 2000. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 126: 293-326.

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 24 August, 2007 - 3:16pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 9 January, 2013 - 6:04pm

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