Physical Description
Diagnostic Description
Allied to Tapinoma and distinguished by the peculiar structure of the gizzard, the calyx of which is covered with small clear spots apparently representing thin areas in the chitin. The anus is terminal in the worker and female. The former is small and monomorphic, the latter but little larger. The anterior wings have two closed cubital cells and a discoidal cell.
The male has a short antennal scape, not longer than the two first joints of the funiculus. Wings like those of the female, but with the cubital vein more or less interrupted near the second cubital cell. In one species, T. albipes , both apterous and winged males are known to occur.
The genus is confined to the Old World tropics, ranging over the Ethiopian, Indomalayan, Papuan, and Australian Regions (Map 33). Some of the species nest in the ground, others make small carton nests on the bark of trees. T. albipes is being rapidly disseminated in the tropics by commerce and sometimes occurs in hothouses in temperate regions.
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This genus is represented by a single introduced species in the T. albipes complex, which occasionally establishes residence in hothouses (e.g., in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco). The group is under taxonomic revision by Barry Bolton (pers. comm.). References: Deyrup(1991), Ogata et al. (1996), Smith (1965), Tsuji et al. (1991), Yamauchi et al. (1991).
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex ARA04
Public Records: 0
Species: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex ARA03
Public Records: 0
Species: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex ARA02
Public Records: 0
Species: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex ARA01
Public Records: 0
Species: 9
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex JTL001
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex curiosus_01
Public Records: 0
Species: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex difficilis_02
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex fisheri_01
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex difficilis_01
Public Records: 0
Species: 15
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex ambvky_m01
Public Records: 0
Species: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex 005
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex 004
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex 003
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex DRw05
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Technomyrmex DRw02
Public Records: 0
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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White footed ant
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Was first described from Indonesia in 1861, the white footed ant neither bites nor causes structural damage. Yet it is considered a nuisance due to their explosive population growth.
Introduced species
Although not native to North America, the insects were accidentally imported into Florida where they were first collected and identified in 1986. New information from Bolton indicates that the white-footed ant in Florida is Technomyrmex difficilis.
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