The little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata: distribution, impact, and control.

By James K. Wetterer, S. Porter. 2003

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Niche opportunity and ant invasion: the case of Wasmannia auropunctata in a New Caledonian rain forest (2005, background): “…and the exudates of Hemiptera is basic to the success of the most invasive ant species, whose population explosions are generally accompanied by a population explosion of their attended hemiptera (Davidson et al. 2003, Helms & Vinson 2003, Holway et al. 2002, Wetterer & Porter 2003).”
Impact of the Little Fire Ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, on Native Forest Ants in Gabon 1 (2006, background): “…Gabon’s coasts sometime before 1914 (Santschi 1914) and has been further 666 C© 2006 The Author(s) Journal compilation C© 2006 by The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation transported within the country, via both inadvertent and intentional transport by humans (Wetterer & Porter 2003).”
Changing perspectives on the biogeography of the tropical South Pacific: influences of dispersal, vicariance and extinction (2009, background): “…additional species, such as the mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) in Fiji (Morley, 2004) and the giant African snail (Achatina fulica) and fire ants (Wasmannia auropunctata) in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands (Cowie, 2001; Wetterer & Porter, 2003), were accidentally, or intentionally, introduced.”
Determinants for the successful establishment of exotic ants in New Zealand (2005, background): “Several of the ant species which have so far failed to establish in New Zealand have invaded human modified environments in similar or cooler climates elsewhere, such as W. auropunctata and L. niger in Europe (Baroni Urbani & Collingwood, 1977; Wetterer & Porter, 2003).”
Worldwide spread of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2009, background): “2004), the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata (ROGER, 1863) (WETTERER & PORTER 2003), the long-legged ant Anoplolepis gracilipes (SMITH, 1857) (WETTERER 2005), the African big-headed ant, Pheidole megacephala (FABRICIUS, 1793) (WETTERER 2007), and the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (MAYR,…”
The little things that run the world revisited: a review of ant-mediated ecosystem services and disservices (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2012, background): “2006), and stings of Wasmannia auropunctata (ROGER, 1863), an invasive ant species in the tropics, can cause blindness in mammals (WETTERER & PORTER 2003).”