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Pseudomyrmex gracilis
(Formicidae)

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Species description or overview

Elongate twig ant: Pseudomyrmex gracilis
This University of Florida site presents general information and a photograph of Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Identification

Pseudomyrmex gracilis SEM image
This SEM (scanning electron microscope) image of the Mexican ant is a frontal head view.

Taxonomy & nomenclature

ITIS nomenclature info for Pseudomyrmex gracilis
Nomenclatural information about Pseudomyrmex gracilis is provided by ITIS.

Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius, 1804) taxonomy from ITIS
ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, lists taxonomic data for Pseudomyrmex gracilis and allows searches of other databases.

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

Pseudomyrmex gracilis images from AntWeb
This AntWeb site allows comparisons of close-up images of individuals within the species Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Pseudomyrmex gracilis SEM image
This SEM (scanning electron microscope) image of the Mexican ant is a frontal head view.

Pseudomyrmex gracilis, Mexican twig ant photos
Prize winning photographs show twig ants in nature.

Distribution

Ants on non-native neotropical ant-acacias (Fabales: Fabaceae) in Florida
Pseudomyrmex gracilis was found inhabiting an ant-acacia's hollow thorns, reconstituting in an exotic locale a facultative symbiosis evolved in the Neotropics.

Pseudomyrmex gracilis distribution map
This interactive global map from Discover Life shows collection information for Pseudomyrmex gracilis from Florida Atlantic University.

New arthropod records from Kahoolawe (Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 2004) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
New island records of a variety of arthropods collected on Kahoolawe are reported here.

Full-text articles

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.

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