Linepithema
Genus of ants
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Linepithema is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2]
| Linepithema | |
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| Linepithema humile (Argentine ant) worker from California | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Linepithema Mayr, 1866 |
| Type species | |
| Linepithema fuscum Mayr, 1866 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 20 species | |
Distribution
Their native distribution ranges from northern Mexico, east into the Caribbean, and south into northern Argentina. Two species have been spread around the world by human activities: L. iniquum and L. humile. The latter is better known as the Argentine ant, an invasive species with notable presence in Mediterranean climates. Linepithema species are found from sea level and up to 4,000 meters above sea level in the Andes.[3]
Species
- Linepithema anathema (Wild, 2007)
- Linepithema angulatum (Emery, 1894)
- Linepithema aztecoides (Wild, 2007)
- Linepithema cerradense (Wild, 2007)
- Linepithema cryptobioticum (Wild, 2007)
- Linepithema dispertitum (Forel, 1885)
- Linepithema flavescens (Wheeler & Mann, 1914)
- Linepithema fuscum (Mayr, 1866)
- Linepithema gallardoi (Brèthes, 1914)
- Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868)
- Linepithema inacatum (Bolton, 1995)
- Linepithema iniquum (Mayr, 1870)
- Linepithema keiteli (Forel, 1907)
- Linepithema leucomelas (Emery, 1894)
- Linepithema micans (Forel, 1908)
- Linepithema neotropicum (Wild, 2007)
- Linepithema oblongum (Santschi, 1929)
- Linepithema piliferum (Mayr, 1870)
- Linepithema pulex (Wild, 2007)
- Linepithema tsachila (Wild, 2007)
