Check List 20(6): 1397-1403, doi: 10.15560/20.6.1397
An undesirable presence: first record of the exotic ant Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) for Peru
Vitória Brunetta‡, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa‡‡ Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
Corresponding author: Vitória Brunetta ( viibvieira@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Livia Pires do Prado © Vitória Brunetta, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Brunetta V, Feitosa RM (2024) An undesirable presence: first record of the exotic ant Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) for Peru. Check List 20(6): 1397-1403. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.6.1397 |  |
Abstract
Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) is an invasive exotic ant species due to its occurrence outside its native range, its impacts on native species, and economic harm. This study presents the first records of M. floricola in Peru, which were collected during field courses in 2012 and 2013 in disturbed areas of the Peruvian Amazon. Given the distance between the recorded locations, its invasive potential, and the previously reported impacts, we emphasize that this is an alarming situation that requires further research on its occurrence and impacts in this region.
Keywords
Biological invasion, conservation, distribution, flower ants, impacts