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Wasmannia auropunctata (electric ant)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The electric ant, also known as the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, is a small (approx 1.5 mm long), light to golden brown (ginger) social ant native to Central and South America, now spread to parts of Africa (including Gabon and Cameroon), North America, Puerto Rico, Israel, Cuba, and six Pacific Island groups (including the Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands) plus north-eastern Australia (Cairns),
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Infraspecies

Wasmannia auropunctata auropunctata
Wasmannia auropunctata australis
Wasmannia auropunctata laevifrons
Wasmannia auropunctata nigricans
Wasmannia auropunctata obscura
Wasmannia auropunctata pulla
Wasmannia auropunctata rugosa
Wasmannia auropunctata var. auropunctata
Wasmannia auropunctata var. rugosa

Invasive Species

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Prey / Diet

Goeppertia ovandensis[1]

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Effects of ant behaviour and presence of extrafloral nectaries on seed dispersal of the Neotropical myrmecochore Turnera ulmifolia L. (Turneraceae), MARIANA CUAUTLE, VICTOR RICO-GRAY and CECILIA DIAZ-CASTELAZO, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2005, 86, 67–77.
♦ 2Flower-visiting insects of the Galapagos Islands, McCullen, C. K. 1993. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 69:95-106
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
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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