🐜Pharaoh ant
The pharaoh ant is a small (2 mm) yellow or light brown, almost transparent ant notorious for being a major indoor nuisance pest, especially in hospitals. A cryptogenic species, it has now been introduced to virtually every area of the world, including Europe, the Americas, Australasia and Southeast Asia. It is a major pest in the United States, Australia, and Europe. The ant's common name is possibly derived from the belief that it was one of the Egyptian (pharaonic) plagues.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The IUCN Red List has not assessed Monomorium pharaonis yet.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Pharaoh ant
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
No measurements for Pharaoh ant yet.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderHymenoptera
- ›familyFormicidae
- ›genusMonomorium
- ›speciesMonomorium pharaonis
- classInsects · Insecta
- orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
- superfamilyFormicoidea
- familyFormicidae
All 8 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
- superfamilyFormicoidea
- familyFormicidae
More about the Pharaoh ant
No videos of the Pharaoh ant yet.
We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.
All videos →Compare the Pharaoh ant
Pick a tool — the Pharaoh ant is already selected.
Compare every stat with any other animal.
Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.
How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.
See where it sits in the tree of life.