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Brachymyrmex obscurior
(Formicidae)

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Species description or overview

Rover ants Brachymyrmex spp.
This University of Florida site presents general information and a photograph of Brachymyrmex spp.

Identification

Key to ant species in Hawaii
13 physical characteristics are the basis of this computer-assisted key for identifying the 48 species of ants in Hawaii.

AntWeb field guide to the ant species of Hawaii View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Images of 20 of the ant species of Hawaii help to identify the species.

Taxonomy & nomenclature

ITIS nomenclature info for Brachymyrmex obscurior
Nomenclatural information about Brachymyrmex obscurior is provided by ITIS.

Impacts

Interspecific competition and coexistence between ants and land hermit crabs on small Bahamian islands (abstract)
Brachymyrmex obscurior Forel, drove off hermit crabs from food sources by recruiting large numbers of workers (Acta Oecologica, 2002).

Discussion forums

Pacific Ant Group e-mail list (PAG-L@HAWAII.EDU)
The Pacific Ant Group discussion forum facilitates communication toward preventing establishment of Red Imported fire ant and other invasive ants on Pacific islands.

Images

Brachymyrmex obscurioir information from Antweb
Information about the ant Brachymyrmex obscurioir--including images of specimens--is available online from Antweb (California Academy of Science).

Distribution

Ants of Bermuda
The specimen records of 20 ant species of Bermuda are reviewed (Florida Entomologist, 2004).

Full-text articles

A review of Bahamian ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) biogeography (Journal of Biogeography, 1998) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Results of surveys of native and exotic ants in the Bahamas are presented, and historical and ecological factors affecting the distribution of ant species are discussed.

Brachymyrmex obscurior among stowaways to Virgin Islands View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Brachymyrmex obscurior was among several plant pests inadvertently transported to the British Virgin Isles in a shipment of potted plants from Florida, indicating the need for more effective measures to prevent continued spread of non-indigenous invertebrates to islands.

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