Nylanderia amia

Nylanderia amia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Lasiini
Genus:	Nylanderia
Species:	N. amia
Binomial name
Nylanderia amia (Forel, 1913) Specimen Labels

Common Name
Kebuka-ameiro-ari
Language:	Japanese

This species is found in rather dry habitats and nests in leaf litter and rotting wood or in the soil of grassland, or at forest margins. Nylanderia amia occurs distributed in Japan and Taiwan, and is commonly found in the Ogasawara and Nansei Islands, Japan. It has been recently collected in city parks and at road sides in Kagoshima and Hiroshima cities. It has also been found in plant pots at a Tokyo aquarium. (Japanese Ant Image Database)

At a Glance

• Invasive

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 22.1983° to 22.1244°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Taiwan (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: Japan.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• amia. Prenolepis (Nylanderia) bourbonica var. amia Forel, 1913f: 197 (w.q.) TAIWAN. Combination in Paratechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925b: 219; in Nylanderia: LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010a: 127. Raised to species: Terayama, 1999c: 61.

References

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