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Tetramorium caespitum (pavement ant)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The pavement ant (Tetramorium caespitum) is an ant native to Europe, which also occurs as an introduced pest in North America. Its common name comes from the fact that colonies in North America usually make their homes in pavement. It is distinguished by one pair of spines on the back, two nodes on the petiole, and grooves on the head and thorax . Pavement ants were studied on the International Space Station in 2014.
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Infraspecies

Tetramorium caespitum alternans
Tetramorium caespitum altivagans
Tetramorium caespitum barabense
Tetramorium caespitum caespitomoravicum
Tetramorium caespitum caespitum
Tetramorium caespitum flavidulum
Tetramorium caespitum forte
Tetramorium caespitum galaticum
Tetramorium caespitum japonicum
Tetramorium caespitum oxyomma
Tetramorium caespitum pallidum
Tetramorium caespitum penninum
Tetramorium caespitum punicum
Tetramorium caespitum rhodium
Tetramorium caespitum typicum
Tetramorium caespitum var. biskrensis
Tetramorium caespitum var. caespitum
Tetramorium caespitum var. lucidula
Tetramorium caespitum var. punicum
Tetramorium caespitum var. schmidti

Attributes

Diet [1]  Omnivore, Coprophage
Hibernates [1]  Yes

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Calluna vulgaris (heather)[2]

Predators

Myrmeleon bore[3]
Zodarion germanicum[4]
Zodarion rubidum[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Oscheius dolichura[5]

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
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3The Feeding Ecology of the Pit-making Ant Lion Larva, Myrmeleon bore: Feeding Rate and Species Composition of Prey in a Habitat, Toshiaki MATSURA, Ecol. Res. 1: 15-24, 1986
♦ 4PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF TWO EUROPEAN ANT-EATING SPIDERS (ARANEAE, ZODARIIDAE), Stano Pekár, 2004. The Journal of Arachnology 32:31–41
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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