Wasmannia
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| Wasmannia | |
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| File:Wasmannia auropunctata casent0005064 profile 1.jpg | |
| Wasmannia auropunctata worker | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Wasmannia Forel, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| Tetramorium auropunctatum Roger, 1863
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 10 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hercynia Enzmann, J., 1947 | |
Wasmannia is a genus of ants. Wasmannia auropunctata is known as the electric ant[2] or little fire ant and are considered by many countries to be a destructive, highly invasive species.[3][4]
Species
[edit | edit source]- Wasmannia affinis Santschi, 1929
- Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger, 1863)
- Wasmannia iheringi Forel, 1908
- Wasmannia lutzi Forel, 1908
- Wasmannia rochai Forel, 1912
- Wasmannia scrobifera Kempf, 1961
- Wasmannia sigmoidea (Mayr, 1884)
- Wasmannia sulcaticeps Emery, 1894
- Wasmannia villosa Emery, 1894
- Wasmannia williamsoni Kusnezov, 1952
References
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- ^ Electric ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) webpage Archived 2009-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 7 March 2009
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
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