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Anoplolepis gracilipes

Yellow Crazy Ant

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Yellow Crazy Ant, Long-legged Ant

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Africa - Asia; EXOTIC EXOTIC circumtropical (incl. Fiji - Cooks) and subtropical

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land, "Disturbed", horticultural, Urban

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; General domestic pest, possibly harmful to indigenous small animals

SIMILAR SPECIES: See under Crazy Ant (Paratrechina longicornis)

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+++		P		P				P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Anoplolepis gracilipes (Fr. Smith)
SYNONYMS: Anoplolepis longipes; Formica longipes [O]; Plagiolepis longipes

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hymenoptera; Apocrita; Aculeata; Vespoidea; FORMICIDAE, Formicinae

More Information

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -. Comment: is One of world's 100 invasive alien species [ISSG,2001].
NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANCE: General domestic pest, possibly harmful to indigenous small animals

GENERAL NOTE: Tramp species = Certainly distributed by recent human commerce.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: TaylorDSIR; specimen - Rhode, B.E.; Berry, J.A. 2000. Ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. Rarotonga: Clarke1937; specimens+photo, 12/2003, Queen+workers, in house in Tupapa, G.McCormack, ID N.Reimer (DoA Hawaii) as Anoplolepis gracilipes, 5/2004.

References:
Special Reference: W&T67,

Data Update History (information):
zB02, zupB04b

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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