🐜Argentine ant
The Argentine ant is an ant native to northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and southern Brazil. This invasive species was inadvertently introduced by humans on a global scale and has become established in many Mediterranean climate areas, including South Africa, New Zealand, Japan, Easter Island, Australia, the Azores, Europe, Hawaii, and the continental United States. Argentine ants are significant pests within agricultural and urban settings, and are documented to cause substantial harm to communities of native arthropods, vertebrates, and plants within their invaded range.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderHymenoptera
- ›familyFormicidae
- ›genusLinepithema
- ›speciesLinepithema humile
- classInsects · Insecta
- orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
- subfamilyDolichoderinae
- genusLinepithema
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
- superfamilyFormicoidea
- familyFormicidae
- subfamilyDolichoderinae
- genusLinepithema
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