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Genus: Wasmannia   Forel, 1893 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

11 species

Wasmannia Forel, 1893j PDF: 383. Type-species: Tetramorium auropunctatum, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 174. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Wasmannia in Myrmicinae: Forel, 1893j PDF: 383.
Wasmannia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Forel, 1895b PDF: 126; Forel, 1899B: 54.
Wasmannia in Myrmicinae, Attini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 770.
Wasmannia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383.
Wasmannia in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini: Wheeler, 1910a: 141.
Wasmannia in Myrmicinae, Ochetomyrmecini: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Wheeler, 1922: 664, 912; Emery, 1924f: 293; all subsequent authors to the following.
Wasmannia incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Kempf, 1975c PDF: 358; Jaffe, 1993: 12.
Wasmannia in Myrmicinae, Blepharidattini: Bolton, 1994: 105.
Wasmannia as junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex: Brown, 1973b PDF: 185 [provisional].
Wasmannia as genus: Kempf, 1975c PDF: 357; Snelling, 1981: 398; Bolton, 1994: 100, 102.
Wasmannia in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015 PDF: 17.
Genus Wasmannia references
Wheeler, 1922: 912 (Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 293 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kusnezov, 1952h PDF: 181 (Argentina species key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 257 (catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 81 (New Caledonia checklist); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 383 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 423 (catalogue); Longino & Fernández, 2007: 273 (all species revision, keys); Cuezzo, Calcaterra, Chifflet & Follett, 2015 PDF: 248 (Argentinian checklist, species key, revision)

Taxon Page Images:



Wasmannia auropunctata, the little fire ant, with eggs & young larvae in the nest. This photograph was taken in the native range of this common pest ant. Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Neotropical bioregion.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Cameroon, Gabon, Middle Africa, Ngounié, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, São Tomé
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Nord, Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Nearctic Region: Canada, Florida, North America, Puebla, United States
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Amazonas, Americas, Antigua and Barbuda, Aragua, Argentina, Aruba, Atlántida, Bahamas, Barbados, Barinas, Belize, Bermuda, Boaco, Bolivia, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Caaguazú, Camagüey, Caribbean, Cartago, Ceará, Central, Central America, Chiapas, Chontales, Cibao Nordeste, Cienfuegos, Cochabamba, Coclé, Colombia, Colón, Comayagua, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Córdoba, Darién, Demerara-Mahaica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Duarte, Ecuador, El Progreso, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Galápagos, Gracias a Dios, Granada, Granma, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guantánamo, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Heredia, Holguín, Honduras, Huehuetenango, Islas de la Bahía, Itapúa, Izabal, Jalapa, Jamaica, Jinotega, La Guajira, La Pampa, La Vega, Limón, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, María Trinidad Sánchez, Masaya, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso do Sul, Meta, Mexico, Minas Gerais, Monseñor Nouel, Nacional, Nicaragua, Nueva Segovia, Oaxaca, Ocotepeque, Olancho, Panama, Panamá, Paraguay, Paraná, Peru, Petén, Pinar del Río, Potaro-Siparuni, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Retalhuleu, Rio Grande do Sul, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Cristóbal, San José, Santa Catarina, Santa Rosa, Santiago de Cuba, South America, Suchitepéquez, Suriname, São Paulo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Veracruz, Westmoreland, Zacapa
Oceania Region: Melanesia
Palearctic Region: Europe, Israel, Southern Europe, Spain

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Wasmannia   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Wasmannia   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Wasmannia   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 38, (download) 38 21008
Wasmannia n. gen  Forel, A., 1893, Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent. Récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith., Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893, pp. 333-418: 383, (download) 383 3948
Wasmannia auropunctata   Longino, J. T. & Fernández, F., 2007, Taxonomic review of the genus Wasmannia., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. (Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80), pp. 271-289: 276-278, (download) 276-278 21284
Wasmannia sigmoidea   Longino, J. T. & Fernández, F., 2007, Taxonomic review of the genus Wasmannia., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. (Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80), pp. 271-289: 281, (download) 281 21284


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