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Solenopsis richteri (black imported fire ant)

Wikipedia Abstract

The black imported fire ant (Solenopsis richteri), or simply BIFA, is a species of ant in the genus Solenopsis (fire ants). It was long thought to either be a subspecies or color variation of Solenopsis invicta (red imported fire ant; RIFA), but is now recognized as its own species with a demonstratively different range and living habits. BIFA seem to be more tolerant of cold and a less dominant species than RIFA.
View Wikipedia Record: Solenopsis richteri

Invasive Species

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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore

Prey / Diet

Laeonereis pandoensis[2]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Ant predation on intertidal polychaetes in a SW Atlantic estuary, Gabriela Palomo, Paulina Martinetto, Claudio Perez, Oscar Iribarne, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 253: 165–173, 2003
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0