- Wasmannia
Taxobox | name = "Wasmannia"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Hymenoptera
familia =Formicidae
subfamilia =Myrmicinae
genus = "Wasmannia"
genus_authority = Forel, 1893"Wasmannia" is a
genus ofant s that are social, native to tropicalhabitat s, and haplodiploid, with the reproductivecaste s (queens and drones) haploid, and the worker caste diploid. They are also known as the "little fire ant" and are considered a destructiveinvasive species . [ [http://www.issg.org/database/species/search.asp?st=100ss&fr=1&str Global Invasive Species Database - No. 100 - Wasmannia auropunctata] ] [cite web| author = Lowe S, Browne M, Boudjelas S, De Poorter M| title = 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species: A Selection from the Global Invasive Species Database| work = Invasive Species Specialist Group| publisher = IUCN| date = 2004| url = http://www.issg.org/booklet.pdf| format = PDF| accessdate = 2006-08-21] In one species, "W. auropunctata", the males and females have been shown to reproduce clonally. [cite journal | quotes=no |author=D. Fournier, A. Estoup, J. Orivel, J. Foucaud, H. Jourdan, J. Le Breton & L. Keller | title=Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant | journal=Nature | year=2005 | volume=435 | pages=1230–1234 | doi=10.1038/nature03705]References
External Links
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/ants/little_fire_ant.htm little fire ant, "Wasmannia auropunctata"] on the
UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
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