Wasmannia

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]

Wasmannia
Wasmannia auropunctata worker
Scientific 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
Diversity[1]
10 species
Synonyms
Hercynia Enzmann, J., 1947

Species

• 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

1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Wasmannia". AntCat. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
2. Electric ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) webpage Accessed 7 March 2009
3. Global Invasive Species Database - No. 100 - Wasmannia auropunctata
4. Lowe S, Browne M, Boudjelas S, De Poorter M (2004). "100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species: A Selection from the Global Invasive Species Database" (PDF). Invasive Species Specialist Group. IUCN. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-08-13. Retrieved 2006-08-21.

External links

• Media related to Wasmannia at Wikimedia Commons
• Little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site