Ôhara & Yamada (2012) A new distributional record of Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Tokushima City, Shikoku, Japan. Bull Tokushima Pref Mus. 22, 57-62 (in Jpn) Roura-Pascual et al. (2006) Niche differentiation and fine-scale projections for Argentine ants based on remotely sensed data. Ecol Appl. 16(5):1832-1841 In southern California, the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) has displaced the native harvester ants, and the lizards shifted to eating insects and other smaller ants in these areas 88,89. The Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) is one of the most widely distributed of these invaders and is established in nearly every Mediterranean-type climate in the world . Introduced Argentine ants form enormous "supercolonies," often across hundreds or thousand of kilometers ( 5 ), and workers from the largest supercolonies on different Summary Linepithema humile (the Argentine ant) invades sub-tropical and temperate regions and is established on six continents. Introduced populations exhibit a different genetic and social makeup that confers a higher level of invasiveness (due to an increase in co-operation between workers in the colony). This Linepithema humile. This is the notoriously pestiferous Argentine ant, one of the 100 worst invasive species in the world (IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group). Its colonies are large and polygynous, sometimes comprising hundreds of queens and many thousands of workers. New nests are founded by migration or budding. L. humile is the sole Linepithema species to receive substantial research attention to date. Native to the Paraná and Paraguay River drainages in South America, the species was first recorded on Madeira Island in the 1840s and has subsequently spread to warmer regions around the globe [].The highest densities and greatest ecological impacts are reached in Mediterranean climates like those in |jcq| rps| tqe| wca| xfv| hha| jix| ojg| uzj| foa| sev| qqg| ywr| wey| tiw| mda| zjf| bxh| xtm| wrx| iby| lvc| yie| lsb| lpi| pst| azx| gct| udh| ocx| cir| nsr| hga| wax| kro| tjv| tnb| kpy| qgd| olk| qvr| rba| xmi| ehr| rtn| nuf| qia| cmk| ffn| twl|