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Netherlands Antilles
| Netherlands Antilles | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Region | Americas |
| Subregion | Caribbean |
| BioRegion | Neotropical Region |
| Diversity | |
| Subfamilies | 4 |
| Genera | 21 |
| Endemic Genera | 0 |
| % Endemic Genera | 0.0% |
| Species/Subspecies | 50 |
| Endemic Species | 0 |
| % Endemic Species | 0.0% |
| Introduced Species | 0 |
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire (ABC Islands), in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten (SSS Islands), in the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands.
Anochetus
- Anochetus mayri Emery, 1884 Saba
Azteca
- Azteca delpini Emery, 1893 Saba
Brachymyrmex
- Brachymyrmex minutus Forel, 1893 Saba
- Brachymyrmex patagonicus Mayr, 1868 Saba
- Brachymyrmex obscurior Forel, 1893 Saba
Camponotus
- Camponotus claviscapus Forel, 1899 Saba
- Camponotus kaura Snelling, R.R. & Torres, 1998 Saba
- Camponotus pittieri Forel, 1899 Saba
- Camponotus sexguttatus (Fabricius, 1793) Saba
Cardiocondyla
- Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel, 1881
- Cardiocondyla mauritanica Forel, 1890 Saba
- Cardiocondyla obscurior Wheeler, W.M., 1929 Saba
Crematogaster
- Crematogaster species
Cyphomyrmex
- Cyphomyrmex minutus Saba
- Cyphomyrmex rimosus Saba
Dorymyrmex
- Dorymyrmex species
Hypoponera
- Hypoponera opacior (Forel, 1893) Saba
- Hypoponera opaciceps (Mayr, 1887) Saba
- Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859)
Monomorium
- Monomorium ebeninum Forel, 1891 Saba
- Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) Saba
Mycocepurus
- Mycocepurus smithii (Forel, 1893) Saba
Nylanderia
- Nylanderia steinheili (Forel, 1893) Saba
Odontomachus
- Odontomachus ruginodis M.R.Smith, 1937 Saba
Paratrechina
- Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille, 1802) Saba
Pheidole
- Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)
- Pheidole exigua Mayr, 1884 Saba
- Pheidole fallax Mayr, 1870 Saba
- Pheidole jelskii Mayr, 1884 Saba
- Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793) Saba
- Pheidole sculptior Forel, 1893 Saba
- Pheidole susannae Forel, 1886 Saba
Platythyrea
- Platythyrea punctata (Smith, 1858) Saba
Solenopsis
- Solenopsis azteca Forel, 1893 Saba
- Solenopsis castor Forel, 1893 Saba
- Solenopsis desecheoensis Mann, 1920 Saba
- Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804) Saba
- Solenopsis invicta Buren, 1972
- Solenopsis pollux Forel, 1893 Saba
- Solenopsis pygmaea Forel, 1901 Saba
- Solenopsis zeteki Wheeler, 1942 Saba
Strumigenys
- Strumigenys emmae (Emery, 1890)
- Strumigenys gundlachi Roger, 1862 Saba
- Strumigenys margaritae Forel, 1893 Saba
- Strumigenys rogeri Emery, 1890 Saba
Tapinoma
- Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) Saba
Tetramorium
- Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846)
- Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870
- Tetramorium lucayanum Wheeler, W.M., 1905 Saba
Wasmannia
- Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger, 1863) Saba
Other Resources
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References
- Weber, N. A. 1948b. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan islands: No. 14. Ants from the Leeward Group and some other Caribbean localities. Natuurwet. Studiekring Suriname Ned. Antillen 5: 78-86.
- Peter Boer & Marijn J. A. Boer. 2019 The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Saba (Netherlands Antilles). Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. 26 pages.