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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Myrmicinae » Solenopsidini » Pharaoh and Timid Ants (Monomorium) » Monomorium floricola

Species Monomorium floricola

Classification · Other Common Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Internet References
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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 Solenopsidini
Genus Monomorium (Pharaoh and Timid Ants)
Species floricola (Monomorium floricola)
Other Common Names
Economic entomologists in FL and HI sometimes use the name "bicolored trailing ant".
Size
1.75 mm workers; 3mm queens
Identification
M. floricola is recongnized by its slender shininess, yellowish mesosoma contrasting with the rest dark brown to black, pointy gaster apex, and runnning in Pharaoh ant like trails (and is another introduced congener of the latter).
Range
M. floricola is presumed to originate from India, but is now found near people in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. In the US it is found in FL, TX, HI.
Habitat
Nests above ground in preformed cavities of plants, e.g. beetle burrows, abandoned nests of other arboreal ants, hollow weed and vine stems -- less often, in buildings.
Internet References
Monomorium floricola at Invasive ants of the Pacific Islands
Contributed by James C. Trager on 7 February, 2011 - 10:17am
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 25 December, 2018 - 10:19am

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