小火蟻
外观
小火蟻 | |
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工蟻 | |
蟻后 | |
科学分类 | |
界: | 动物界 Animalia |
门: | 节肢动物门 Arthropoda |
纲: | 昆虫纲 Insecta |
目: | 膜翅目 Hymenoptera |
科: | 蟻科 Formicidae |
属: | 沃氏蚁属 Wasmannia |
种: | 小火蟻 W. auropunctata
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二名法 | |
Wasmannia auropunctata |
小火蟻(學名:Wasmannia auropunctata,英語:electric ant、little fire ant),又稱金刻沃氏蚁或光點小火蟻,是一種小型的家蟻亞科物種,原生於中南美洲,現已擴張到北美洲、台灣[2]、以色列[3][4] 和一些太平洋島嶼(加拉帕戈斯群島、夏威夷、新喀里多尼亞和所羅門群島),此外東北澳大利亞的凱恩亦有紀錄。[5][6]
其英文名稱“electric ant”來自其咬傷產生如觸電的強烈痛感,[7] 它也是世界百大外來入侵種之一。小火蟻體長約1.5毫米,通體黃褐色。雌雄皆能無性繁殖,是最早被發現兩性都可以無性繁殖的動物。[8][8][9]
參考文獻
[编辑]- ^ Wasmannia auropunctata. ITIS.
- ^ 李錦城、徐伯瑋、許峰銓、施鈞瀚、蕭祐鈞、楊景程、林宗岐. 光點小火蟻 (Wasmannia auropunctata) (膜翅目:蟻科):台灣新記錄之入侵螞蟻及其潛在威脅. 台灣昆蟲. 2021, 41 (3): 172–181. ISSN 2414-1194. doi:10.6662/TESFE.202108_41(3).004 .
- ^ Vonshak, Merav; T. Dayan, A. Ionescu-Hirsch, A. Freidberg, A. Hefetz. The little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata: a new invasive species in the Middle East and its impact on the local arthropod fauna. Biological Invasions. 2010, 12: 1825–1837. [永久失效連結]
- ^ Foucaud, Julien; et al. Worldwide invasion by the little fire ant: routes of introduction and eco-evolutionary pathways. Evolutionary Applications. 2010, 3: 363–374.
- ^ Electric ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) webpage 互联网档案馆的存檔,存档日期2009-02-14. Accessed 7 March 2009
- ^ Global Invasive Species Database - No. 100 - Wasmannia auropunctata. [2014-03-31]. (原始内容存档于2014-01-16).
- ^ Queensland Government Electric Ant: Warning 互联网档案馆的存檔,存档日期2011-02-18. Accessed 7 March 2009
- ^ 8.0 8.1 Fournier, Denis; Estoup, Arnaud; Orivel, Jérôme; Foucaud, Julien; Jourdan, Hervé; Breton, Julien Le; Keller, Laurent. Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant. Nature. 2005, 435 (7046): 1230–4. PMID 15988525. doi:10.1038/nature03705.
- ^ Pearcy, M.; Aron, S; Doums, C; Keller, L. Conditional Use of Sex and Parthenogenesis for Worker and Queen Production in Ants. Science. 2004, 306 (5702): 1780–3. PMID 15576621. doi:10.1126/science.1105453.
外部連結
[编辑]- University of Hawaii Alert: "Identifying the Little Fire Ant" (includes photo) (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)Accessed 8 March 2009
- Little Fire Ant in French Polynesia
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