| | | | Distribution path and Subregions of Polynesia (More Checklists) | | Path: | Continents - Oceania - Polynesia | | Subregions: | American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Zealand (North Island), Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna |
| | Taxonomy for Formicidae (Ants) in Polynesia | Class
Polynesia | Insecta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Insects) - Systematics
535 families, 5766 genera, 22774 species | Tree
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Polynesia | Pterygota (Lang, 1888) (Winged insects)
529 families, 5756 genera, 22760 species | Tree
| Infraclass
Polynesia | Neoptera (Van Der Wulp, 1890) (Wing-folding insects)
510 families, 5687 genera, 22604 species | Tree
| Superorder
Polynesia | Holometabola (Heider, 1889) (Holometabolous Insects)
338 families, 4444 genera, 18861 species | Tree
| Order
Polynesia | Hymenoptera (Linnaeus, 1758) (Wasps) - Systematics
50 families, 532 genera, 1341 species | Tree
| Suborder
Polynesia | Apocrita (Gerstaecker, 1867) (True wasps)
47 families, 526 genera, 1332 species | Tree
| Infraorder
Polynesia | Aculeata (Latreille, 1802) (Stinging wasps)
17 families, 134 genera, 425 species | Tree
| Superfamily
Polynesia | Formicoidea (Latreille, 1802) (Ants)
1 family, 66 genera, 224 species | Tree
| Family
Polynesia | Formicidae (Latreille, 1809) (Ants) - Systematics
66 genera, 224 species | Site
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| | Genera | 1.482 worldwide | | Species | 51.761 worldwide | | Common names | Ants | | German names | Ameisen | | Dutch names | Mieren | | Danish names | Myrerne, Myrer | | Finnish names | Muurahaiset | | Norwegian names | Maur | | Swedish names | Myror | | Spanish names | Hormigas | | Italian names | Formiche | | French names | Fourmis | | Author | Latreille, 1809 | Distribution
Checklists |
Continents:
Eurasia
Asia (Far East, South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, North Asia, Maldives), Europe (North Europe, South Europe, West Europe, Central Europe, Southeast Europe, East Europe, Malta), Russia (Siberia, European Russia), Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Transcaucasia) America
North America (USA, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda Islands, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Rocky Mountains), South America (Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, French Guiana, Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, Surinam, Uruguay, Amazon basin, Falkland Islands, Madeira River), Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, El Salvador), Caribbean (Caribbean islands, Islas de la Bahía) Africa
East Africa (Indian Ocean islands, Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Somalia, Rwanda, Eritrea, Burundi, Djibouti), Southern Africa (Republic South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland), Central Africa (Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Gabon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, São Tomé and Príncipe), North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Macaronesia, Tunisia, Sudan, Libya, South Sudan, Sahara), West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Togo, Gambia, Liberia, Benin, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau) Oceania
Australasia (Australia, New Guinea), Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Samoa, American Samoa, Norfolk Island, Tonga, Cook Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Niue, Tuvalu, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau), Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), Micronesia (Palau, Marshall Islands, Guam, Kiribati, Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands, Nauru)
Ecozones:
Palaearctic
Nearctic
Afrotropical
Neotropical
Indo-Australian region
Fossils:
Cenozoic
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
World Oceans:
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
| Countries
Checklists | Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, USA, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe | | Links and References | Formicidae in bie.ala.org.au
Formicidae in insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu
Formicidae in antcat.org
Formicidae in antwiki.org
Formicidae in darwinfoundation.org
Formicidae in faunaeur.org
Formicidae in itis.gov
Formicidae in antweb.org
Formicidae in dyntaxa.se
Formicidae in Wikipedia (English)
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Species overview - Checklist for Formicidae in Polynesia
| | Species with A | Next | | | Acanthoponera brounii (Forel, 1892) | Info | | Adelomyrmex samoanus (E.o. Wilson & Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Amblyopone australis (Erichson, 1842) | Southern michelin ant | Info | | Amblyopone saundersi -> Stigmatomma saundersi | Info | | Amblyopone zwaluwenburgi (Williams, 1946) | Info | | Anochetus graeffei (Mayr, 1870) | Info | | Anochetus risii (Forel, 1900) | Info | | Anoplolepis gracilipes (Smith, 1857) | Maldive ant | Info | | Austroponera castanea (Mayr, 1865) | Info | | Austroponera castaneicolor (Dalla Torre, 1893) | Info | | Austroponera schneideri (Kaulfuss & Dlussky, 2016) | Info | | Species with B | Back Next | Top | | Bannapone zwaluwenburgi (Williams, 1946) | Info | | Basiceros procerum (Emery, 1897) | Info | | Brachymyrmex obscurior (Forel, 1893) | Info | | Brachyponera chinensis (Emery, 1895) | Chinese Needle Ant | Info | | Brachyponera luteipes (Mayr, 1862) | Info | | Species with C | Back Next | Top | | Camponotus chloroticus (Emery, 1897) | Info | | Camponotus chloroticus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | | Camponotus chloroticus (Emery, 1897) | Info | | Camponotus conicus (Mayr, 1876) | Info | | Camponotus flavolimbatus (Viehmeyer, 1922) | Info | | Camponotus interception () | Info | | Camponotus mississippiensis -> Colobopsis mississippiensis | Info | | Camponotus navigator (Wilson & Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Camponotus newzealandicus (Donisthorpe, 1940) | Info | | Camponotus nigrifrons (Mayr, 1870) | Info | | Camponotus pallens (Le Guillou, 1842) | Info | | Camponotus pennsylvanicus -> Camponotus pensylvanica | Black carpenter ant | Info | | Camponotus pensylvanica (De Geer, 1773) | Info | | Camponotus reticulatus -> Camponotus spenceri | Info | | Camponotus rufifrons (Smith, F., 1860) | Info | | Camponotus spenceri (Clark, 1930) | Info | | Camponotus spenceri (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | | Camponotus variegatus (Smith, F., 1858) | Hawaiian carpenter ant | Info | | Cardiocondyla emeryi (Forel, 1881) | Info | | Cardiocondyla kagutsuchi (Terayama, 1999) | Info | | Cardiocondyla minutior -> Cardiocondyla nudus | Info | | Cardiocondyla nuda (Mayr, 1866) | Info | | Cardiocondyla nudus (Mayr, 1866) | Info | | Cardiocondyla obscurior (Wheeler, 1929) | Info | | Cardiocondyla venustula (Wheeler, 1908) | Info | | Cardiocondyla wroughtonii (Forel, 1890) | Info | | Cardiocondyla wroughtonii obscurior -> Cardiocondyla obscurior | Info | | Carebara atoma (Emery, 1900) | Info | | Carebara atomus (Emery, 1900) | Info | | Carebara diversa (Jerdon, 1851) | Info | | Carebara norfolkensis (Donisthorpe, 1941) | Info | | Carebara tahitiensis (Wheeler, 1936) | Info | | Cerapachys biroi (Forel, 1907) | Clonal raider ant | Info | | Colobopsis mississippiensis (Smith, M.r., 1923) | Info | | Cryptopone testacea (Emery, 1893) | Info | | Species with D | Back Next | Top | | Discothyrea antarctica (Emery, 1894) | Info | | Doleromyrma darwiniana (Forel, 1907) | Brown house ant | Info | | Dolichoderus goudiei (Clark, 1930) | Info | | Species with E | Back Next | Top | | Ectomomyrmex insulanus (Mayr, 1876) | Info | | Eurhopalothrix procera (Emery, 1897) | Info | | Species with H | Back Next | Top | | Heteroponera brouni (Forel, 1892) | Info | | Heteroponera brounii (Forel, 1892) | Info | | Huberia brouni (Forel, 1895) | Info | | Huberia brounii (Forel, 1895) | Info | | Huberia striata (Smith, F., 1876) | Info | | Hypoponera confinis (Roger, 1860) | Info | | Hypoponera eduardi (Forel, 1894) | Info | | Hypoponera ergatandria (Forel, 1893) | Info | | Hypoponera opaciceps (Mayr, 1887) | Info | | Hypoponera opacior (Forel, 1893) | Info | | Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859) | Info | | Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1894) | Info | | Hypoponera zwaluwenburgi (Wheeler, W.m., 1933) | Info | | Species with I | Back Next | Top | | Iridomyrmex anceps (Roger, 1863) | Tropical tyrant ant | Info | | Iridomyrmex calvus (Emery, 1914) | Info | | Iridomyrmex phillipensis (Heterick & Shattuck, 2011) | Info | | Iridomyrmex rufoniger (Lowne, 1865) | Tufted tyrant ants | Info | | Iridomyrmex suchieri (Forel, 1907) | Info | | Species with L | Back Next | Top | | Leptogenys falcigera (Roger, 1861) | Info | | Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868) | Argentine ant | Info | | Species with M | Back Next | Top | | Mayriella abstinens (Forel, 1902) | Info | | Monomorium antarcticum (Smith, 1858) | Info | | Monomorium antipodum (Forel, 1901) | Info | | Monomorium australicum -> Syllophopsis australica | Info | | Monomorium bicolor complex () | Info | | Monomorium destructor -> Trichomyrmex destructor | Singapore ant | Info | | Monomorium fieldi (Forel, 1910) | Little black mono ant | Info | | Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) | Flower ant | Info | | Monomorium indicum (Forel, 1902) | Info | | Monomorium latinode (Mayr, 1872) | Info | | Monomorium liliuokalanii (Forel, 1899) | Liliuokalani ant | Info | | Monomorium monomorium (Bolton, 1987) | Info | | Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus, 1758) | Pharaoh ant | Info | | Monomorium rubriceps (Mayr, 1876) | Info | | Monomorium sechellense -> Syllophopsis sechellensis | Info | | Monomorium smithi (Forel, 1892) | Info | | Monomorium smithii (Forel, 1892) | Info | | Monomorium sydneyense (Forel, 1902) | Sydney mono ants | Info | | Monomorium talpa -> Syllophopsis australica | Info | | Myrmecia brevinoda (Forel, 1910) | Giant bulldog ant | Info | | Myrmecia pyriformis (Smith, F., 1858) | Bull Ant | Info | | Myrmecorhynchus novaeseelandiae (Kaulfuss & Dlussky, 2016) | Info | | Species with N | Back Next | Top | | Nylanderia bourbonica (Forel, 1886) | Info | | Nylanderia braueri glabrior (Forel, 1902) | Info | | Nylanderia flavipes (Smith, F., 1874) | Info | | Nylanderia glabrior (Forel, 1902) | Info | | Nylanderia obscura (Mayr, 1862) | Swamp parrot ant | Info | | Nylanderia sharpii (Forel, 1899) | Info | | Nylanderia tasmaniensis (Forel, 1913) | Info | | Nylanderia vaga (Forel, 1901) | Forest parrot ant | Info | | Species with O | Back Next | Top | | Ochetellus glaber (Mayr, 1862) | Black house ant | Info | | Odontomachus simillimus (Smith, F., 1858) | Info | | Oligomyrmex atomus -> Carebara atoma | Info | | Orectognathus antennatus (Smith, 1853) | Info | | Species with P | Back Next | Top | | Pachycondyla castanea (Mayr, 1865) | Info | | Pachycondyla castaneicolor (Dalla Torre, 1893) | Info | | Pachycondyla insulana (Mayr, 1876) | Info | | Pachycondyla stigma -> Pseudoponera stigma | Info | | Pachycondyla testacea (Bernard, 1953) | Info | | Paraparatrechina minutula (Forel, 1901) | Info | | Paratrechina bourbonica -> Nylanderia bourbonica | Info | | Paratrechina braueri glabrior (Forel, 1902) | Info | | Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille, 1802) | Longhorn crazy ant | Info | | Paratrechina minutula (Forel, 1901) | Baby parrot ants | Info | | Paratrechina tasmaniensis (Forel, 1913) | Info | | Paratrechina vaga -> Nylanderia vaga | Forest parrot ant | Info | | Pheidole aana (Wilson & Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Pheidole atua (Wilson & Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Pheidole fervens (Smith, 1858) | Info | | Pheidole guineensis (Fabricius, 1793) | Info | | Pheidole jordanica (Saulcy, 1874) | Info | | Pheidole megacephala -> Pheidologeton diversus | Coastal brown ant | Info | | Pheidole moerens (Wheeler, 1908) | Info | | Pheidole mus (Forel, 1902) | Info | | Pheidole oceanica (Mayr, 1866) | Info | | Pheidole proxima (Mayr, 1876) | Info | | Pheidole punctulata (Mayr, 1866) | Info | | Pheidole rugosula (Forel, 1902) | Info | | Pheidole rugulosa (Gregg, 1959) | Info | | Pheidole sexspinosa (Mayr, 1870) | Info | | Pheidole umbonata (Mayr, 1870) | Info | | Pheidole variabilis rugosula -> Pheidole rugosula | Info | | Pheidole vigilans (Smith, 1858) | Info | | Pheidole vigilians () | Info | | Pheidologeton diversus (Jerdon, 1851) | East Indian harvesting ant | Info | | Plagiolepis alluaudi (Emery, 1894) | Little yellow ant | Info | | Platythyrea parallela (Smith, F., 1859) | Northern broadnosed killer ants | Info | | Polyrhachis sidnica (Mayr, 1866) | Antarctic spiny ants | Info | | Polyrhachis sidnica (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | | Ponera bableti (Perrault, 1993) | Info | | Ponera incerta (Wheeler, W.m., 1933) | Info | | Ponera leae (Forel, 1913) | Blind crypt ants | Info | | Ponera loi (Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Ponera swezeyi (Wheeler, W.m., 1933) | Info | | Ponera szaboi (Wilson, 1957) | Info | | Ponera tenuis (Emery, 1900) | Info | | Ponera woodwardi (Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Prionopelta kraepelini (Forel, 1905) | Info | | Pristomyrmex levigatus (Emery, 1897) | Info | | Pristomyrmex minusculus (Wang, 2003) | Info | | Proceratium silisili (Liu, Fischer & Economo, 2015) | Info | | Prolasius advena (Smith, 1862) | Small brown bush ant | Info | | Prolasius advenus -> Prolasius advena | Info | | Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius, 1804) | Elongate twig ant | Info | | Pseudoponera stigma (Fabricius, 1804) | Pan-tropical Panther Ant | Info | | Pyramica dubia (Brown, 1953) | Info | | Pyramica epipola (Wetterer & Vargo, 2003) | Info | | Pyramica karawajewi (Brown, 1948) | Info | | Pyramica membranifera -> Strumigenys membranifera | Info | | Species with R | Back Next | Top | | Rhopalothrix procera -> Basiceros procerum | Info | | Rhytidoponera chalybaea (Emery, 1901) | Blue pony ant | Info | | Rhytidoponera gibsoni (Kaulfuss & Dlussky, 2016) | Info | | Rhytidoponera mayri (Emery, 1883) | Titan pony ants | Info | | Rhytidoponera metallica (Smith, 1858) | Metallic pony ant | Info | | Rhytidoponera waipiata (Kaulfuss & Dlussky, 2016) | Info | | Rhytipoponera chalybaea () | Info | | Rogeria exsulans (Wilson & Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Rogeria stigmatica (Emery, 1897) | Info | | Species with S | Back Next | Top | | Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804) | Ginger ant | Info | | Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804) | Info | | Solenopsis globularia (Smith, F., 1858) | Info | | Solenopsis invicta (Buren, 1972) | Red imported fire ant | Info | | Solenopsis laurentia () | Info | | Solenopsis papuana (Emery, 1900) | Info | | Stigmatomma saundersi (Forel, 1892) | Info | | Strumigenys emmae (Emery, 1890) | Info | | Strumigenys epipola (Bolton, 2000) | Info | | Strumigenys godeffroyi (Mayr, 1866) | Info | | Strumigenys insula (Bolton, 2000) | Info | | Strumigenys jepsoni (Mann, 1921) | Info | | Strumigenys karawajewi -> Pyramica karawajewi | Info | | Strumigenys lewisi (Cameron, 1886) | Info | | Strumigenys mailei (Wilson & Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Strumigenys membranifera (Emery, 1869) | Info | | Strumigenys mumfordi (Wheeler, W.m., 1932) | Info | | Strumigenys pergandei (Emery, 1895) | Info | | Strumigenys perplexa (Smith, F., 1876) | Info | | Strumigenys rogeri (Emery, 1890) | Info | | Strumigenys szalayi (Emery, 1897) | Info | | Strumigenys xenos (Brown, 1955) | Info | | Strumigenys zakharovi (Dlussky, 1993) | Info | | Syllophopsis australica (Forel, 1907) | Info | | Syllophopsis sechellensis (Emery, 1894) | Info | | Species with T | Back Next | Top | | Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) | Ghost ant | Info | | Tapinoma minimum (Mayr, 1895) | Info | | Tapinoma minutum (Mayr, 1862) | Dwarf pecdicel ants | Info | | Tapinoma sessile (Say, 1836) | Coconut ant | Info | | Tapinoma wheeleri (Mann, 1935) | Info | | Technomyrmex albipes (Smith, F., 1861) | Black household ant | Info | | Technomyrmex difficilis (Forel, 1892) | White-Footed Ant | Info | | Technomyrmex jocosus (Forel, 1910) | White-footed house ant | Info | | Technomyrmex jocsus () | Info | | Technomyrmex nr albipes (Wetterer & Vargo, 2003) | Info | | Technomyrmex pallipes (Smith, F., 1876) | Info | | Technomyrmex vitiensis (Mann, 1921) | Info | | Tetramorium antipodum (Wheeler, W.m., 1927) | Info | | Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846) | Guinea ant | Info | | Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758) | Pavement ant | Info | | Tetramorium caldarium (Roger, 1857) | Info | | Tetramorium grassii (Emery, 1895) | Info | | Tetramorium guineense -> Tetramorium bicarinatum | Info | | Tetramorium insolens (Smith, F., 1861) | Info | | Tetramorium lanuginosum (Mayr, 1870) | Info | | Tetramorium pacificum (Mayr, 1870) | Pacific pennant ant | Info | | Tetramorium simillimum (Smith, F., 1851) | Info | | Tetramorium smithi (Mayr, 1879) | Info | | Tetramorium tonganum (Mayr, 1870) | Info | | Trichomyrmex destructor (Jerdon, 1851) | Info | | Species with V | Back Next | Top | | Vollenhovia pacifica (Wilson & Taylor, 1967) | Info | | Vollenhovia samoensis (Mayr, 1876) | Info | | Species with W | Back | Top | | Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger, 1863) | Little fire ant | Info | | Wasmannia auropuntata () | Little fire ant | Info | | 224 Species in Formicidae for Polynesia listed |
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| | | Taxonomy | | Class | Insecta
Insects, True insects | | Subclass | Pterygota
Winged insects | | Infraclass | Neoptera
Wing-folding insects | | Superorder | Holometabola
Holometabolous Insects | | Order | Hymenoptera
Wasps, Bees, Ants, Sawflies, Ants and wasps | | Suborder | Apocrita
True wasps, Bees, Ants, Narrow-waisted hymenopterans, Parasitic wasps, Wasps | | Infraorder | Aculeata
Stinging wasps | | Superfamily | Formicoidea
Ants | | Family | Formicidae
Ants | | Author | Latreille, 1809 |
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