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Species Tetramorium tsushimae - Japanese Pavement Ant

Japanese pavement ants - Tetramorium tsushimae

Tetramorium - Tetramorium tsushimae - female

Leptothorax? - Tetramorium tsushimae - female

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 Crematogastrini

Genus Tetramorium

Species tsushimae (Japanese Pavement Ant)

Range

native to temperate Asia; originally imported in the early 1900s to St. Louis, established in urban areas of IL & MO

Contributed by James C. Trager on 17 May, 2010 - 5:06pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 4 February, 2011 - 11:13pm

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