Pheidole navigans
| Pheidole navigans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. navigans
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| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole navigans Forel, 1901
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Pheidole navigans, also called the navigating big-headed ant or the wandering big-headed ant, is a species of big-headed ant of the Pheidole flavens-complex native to Venezuela and Colombia and invasive in California, Bermuda, Germany, Mexico, the Canary Islands, the southeastern United States, and Hawaii. It is commonly misidentified as Pheidole moerens.[1][2] They are a small, short-limbed species, with minor workers reaching 2.0 millimetres (0.079 in), major workers 2.4 millimetres (0.094 in), males 2.8 millimetres (0.11 in), and queens 3.5 millimetres (0.14 in) in total body length.[3][4] In Florida, they are rather common and nest in various microhabitats, including in rotten wood, hollow twigs, nuts, leaf littler, and occasionally arboreally. They are rather generalist and sustain on a wide variety of foods, from small arthropods to human foods. However, they are not reported to be major house pests and were first recorded in Florida in 1975.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Bolton, Barry. "Pheidole navigans Forel, 1901 valid". AntCat. antcat.org. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- ^ Economo, Evan; Guénard, Benoit. "antmaps.org Pheidole navigans". antmaps.org. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- ^ "Species: Pheidole navigans Forel, 1901". AntWeb. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
- ^ Shattuck, Steven O. "Pheidole navigans". AntWiki. antwiki.org. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
- ^ Deyrup, Mark; et al. (2000). "Exotic Ants in Florida". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 126 (3+4): 293–326. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- Bolton, B. (2016). "Catalogue of the Ants of the World" (PDF). unpublished communication. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
External links
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