Monomorium floricola

Habitat / Ecology. This species appears very common in Singapore and was often found in a broad variety of different habitats across the disturbance spectrum, including: abandoned plantation and waste woodland secondary forests, disturbed secondary forest fragments in urban or semi-urban settings, gardens, mangroves, sometimes even in urban infrastructure including buildings. In mangroves, nests were found in bark of dead tree trunks, and also in dead twigs on trees, usually with multiple queens per colony. Colonies have also been found in hollow twigs of mangosteen trees and in withered bamboo.

Sumber: Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy

Bicolored Trailing Ant (DEYRUP et al., 2000) (ANTWEB: CASENT 0173274). (Map 20)

Sumber: Distribution and habitat preferences of Galápagos ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Fig. 3 First record to Gambia. It was found in the Abuko Nature reserve, in a wet location near a swamp. Asian species that has colonized most of the tropical ecosystems in Africa, Oceania, North and South America and Oceania.

Sumber: Intriguing additions of exotic and invasive ants to The Gambia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Ecological and biological notes Workers were collected foraging in leaf litter under a tree of Ziziphus sp. Although the gynes of M. floricola are wingless apparently affecting colony dispersal, the species has successfully spread into the tropics and subtropics (Wetterer 2010 b). This species can nest in tiny cavities in temperate regions where buildings, especially greenhouses, are heated. A ‘ budding phenomenon’ is known for colonies of this species where large colonies divide into smaller colonies (Snelling 2005; Wetterer 2010 b). In addition, colonies are polygynous and polydomous. These biological and ecological characteristics have apparently allowed M. floricola to successfully colonize new habitats world-wide.

Sumber: Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography

Geographic range It was originally described from India, but now is a successful pantropical tramp species known from the Afrotropical (Bolton 1987), the Malagasy (Heterick 2006), the Nearctic (Krombein et al. 1979), the Neotropical (Kempf 1972), and the Polynesian (Wilson & Taylor 1967) Regions. This species is a new record for Oman and the Arabian Peninsula.

Sumber: Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography