Monomorium floricola (Formicidae)

Monomorium floricola
(Formicidae)

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Taxonomy & nomenclature

Monomorium floricola information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Monomorium floricola, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) taxonomy from ITIS
ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, lists taxonomic data for Monomorium floricola and allows searches of other databases.

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
Images of 20 of the ant species of Hawaii help to identify the species.

Impacts

Behavioral responses of the Formosan subterranean termite to semiochemicals of seven ant species (abstract)
Formosan termites responded differently to semiochemicals of different ant species ( Environmental Entomology, 1994) .

Prevention

Change in Quarantine Action Policy for Ants Intercepted from Commodities Destined to the State of Hawaii
A policy change regarding quarantine action for ants intercepted from commodities in Hawaii is detailed here. The revised policy went into effect 10 April 2002.

Human health issues

Evaluation of urban ants as carriers of pathogens in residential and industrial environments: I. Bacteria (abstract)
Tapinoma melanocephalum was the most frequent carrier of potentially pathogenic bacteria in this study, but other ant species are also carriers (Sociobiology, 2005).

Images

Monomorium floricola images (Starr)
Images of Monomorium floricola (Formicidae) (bicolored trailing ant are provided by from Forest and Kim Starr.

Monomorium floricola images
High quality images of Monomorium floricola and links to other sources are available on this Discover Life page.

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

Ants in Hawaii images
Images of many ant species found in Hawaii are on this page of photos taken by Neil Reimer, Hawaii State Department of Agriculture.

Distribution

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy (2000)

The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.

Checklist of the ants of Fiji (Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 2006).
This checklist of the ants of Fiji includes 138 currently valid species and subspecies: 91 Fijian endemics, 22 wide-ranging Pacific natives, and 25 exotics.

Full-text articles

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Sherley, Greg (ed.) . 2000. Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. Apia, Samoa: South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. ISBN: 982-04-0214-X.

The role of opportunity in the unintentional introduction of nonnative ants (Proceedings National Academy of Science)
The authors study ant species unintentionally transported into the US and relate opportunity and species-level ecological attributes to the probability of establishment.

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.

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