Published February 29, 2024
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Tapinoma melanocephalum
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Description
Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)
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Identified following the recent paper by SEIFERT (2022). Successful Asian ant that has colonized the tropics around the world (WETTERER, 2009).
MATERIAL EXAMINED: The Gambia: West Coast: Sumanguru Guest House (Busumbala) 20 m. 13.33298, -16.67077, Garden. GÓmez, K. 14/11/2022, Hand collected, Foraging [KG06020A] ** Bijilo 1 (Bijilo N. P.) 20 m. 13.435, -16.72628, Coastal forest. GÓmez, K. 20/11/2022, Hand collected, Leaf litter under rotten palm [KG06159B]
Notes
Published as part of Jallow, Mamudou & Gomez, Kiko, 2024, Intriguing additions of exotic and invasive ants to The Gambia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 1-12 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 146 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10982127
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2022-11-14
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Tapinoma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Species
- melanocephalum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2022-11-14/20
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) sec. Jallow & Gomez, 2024
References
- SEIFERT B., 2022. - The previous concept of the cosmopolitan pest ant Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) includes two species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Tapinoma). Osmia, 10: 35 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.47446 / OSMIA 10.4
- WETTERER J. K. 2009. - Worldwide spread of the ghost ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum. Myrmecological News, 12: 23 - 33.