Checklist of Solenopsis species

The following species and subspecies belong to the genus Solenopsis. Synonyms are listed under their senior names. For valid names only see Solenopsis species.

A
abdita Thompson, 1989 (United States)

africana Santschi, 1914 (Kenya)

albidula Emery, 1906 (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay)

albidula flava Santschi, 1929 (Argentina)

albidula postbrunnea Forel, 1913 (Brazil)

alecto Santschi, 1934 (Tunisia)

altinodis Forel, 1912 (Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela)

amblychila Wheeler, W.M., 1915 (Mexico, United States)

andina Santschi, 1923 (Argentina)

angulata Emery, 1894 (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)

angulata carettei Forel, 1913 (Argentina)

angulata dolichops Emery, 1906 (Argentina)

angulata huasanensis Forel, 1912 (Argentina)

angulata mendozensis Forel, 1914 (Argentina)

angulata nigelloides Forel, 1913 (Argentina)

atlantis Santschi, 1934 (Tunisia)

aurea Wheeler, W.M., 1906 (Mexico, United States)

• Solenopsis huachucana Wheeler, W.M., 1915

azteca Forel, 1893 (Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico)

azteca pallida Wheeler, W.M., 1908 (Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico)

B
basalis Forel, 1895 (Argentina, Brazil)

basalis major Forel, 1913 (Argentina)

basalis oculatior Forel, 1913 (Argentina)

basalis raptor Santschi, 1919 (Argentina)

basalis urichi Forel, 1912 (Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago)

basalis vittata Forel, 1912 (Brazil)

belisarius Forel, 1907 (Australia)

brasiliana Santschi, 1925 (Brazil)

brazoensis (Buckley, 1867) (United States)

brevicornis Emery, 1888 (Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname)

brevicornis petropolitana Borgmeier, 1928 (Brazil)

brevipes Emery, 1906 (Argentina, Brazil)

bruchiella Emery, 1922 (Argentina)

• Solenopsis bruchi Forel, 1918

bruesi Creighton, 1930 (Peru)

bucki Kempf, 1973 (Brazil)

C
canariensis Forel, 1893 (Canary Islands)

capensis Mayr, 1866 (South Africa)

carolinensis Forel, 1901 (United States)

castor Forel, 1893 (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Grenada, Lesser Antilles, Panama)

celata (Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985) (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan)

clarki Crawley, 1922 (Australia)

clytemnestra Emery, 1896 (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay)

clytemnestra bruchi Forel, 1912 (Argentina)

clytemnestra leda Forel, 1913 (Brazil)

clytemnestra orestes Forel, 1903 (Brazil)

clytemnestra strangulata Forel, 1913 (Brazil)

conjurata Wheeler, W.M., 1925 (Mexico, Panama)

cooperi Donisthorpe, 1947 (Egypt, Libya)

• Solenopsis bakri Sharaf, 2007

corticalis Forel, 1881 (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Panama, Puerto Rico, United States)

corticalis amazonensis Forel, 1904 (French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname)

corticalis binotata Mann, 1920 (Cuba)

corticalis margotae Forel, 1908 (Brazil, Guatemala)

corticalis virgula Forel, 1904 (Cuba)

crivellarii Menozzi, 1936 (Greece)

D
daguerrei (Santschi, 1930) (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay)

• Labauchena acuminata Borgmeier, 1949

dalli (Kusnezov, 1969) (Argentina)

decipiens Emery, 1906 (Argentina, Brazil)

decipiens abjecta Emery, 1906 (Argentina)

dentata Collingwood & Kugler, J., 1994 (Israel)

deserticola Ruzsky, 1905 (Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan)

• Solenopsis orbula oblongior Karavaiev, 1926

dysderces Snelling, R.R., 1975 (Chile)

E
egregia (Kusnezov, 1953) (Argentina)

electra Forel, 1914 (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay)

elhawagryi Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012 (Saudi Arabia)

emeryi Santschi, 1934 (Tunisia)

enigmatica Deyrup & Prusak, 2008 (Dominica)

eximia (Kusnezov, 1953) (Argentina)

F
fairchildi Wheeler, W.M., 1926 (Balearic Islands, Iberian Peninsula, Malta, Spain)

franki Forel, 1908 (Brazil, Paraguay)

franki idae Forel, 1908 (Brazil)

froggatti Forel, 1913 (Australia)

D
debilior Santschi, 1934 (France)

F
fugax (Latreille, 1798) (Albania, Armenia, Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Channel Islands, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

• Diplorhoptrum avium Bernard, 1978

• Diplorhoptrum delta Bernard, 1978

• Diplorhoptrum insulare Bernard, 1978

• Diplorhoptrum pilosum Bernard, 1978

• Myrmica flavidula Nylander, 1849

• Solenopsis balachowskyi Bernard, 1959

• Solenopsis duboscqui Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis emeryi banyulensis Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis fugax debilior Santschi, 1934

• Solenopsis fugax furtiva Santschi, 1934

• Solenopsis fugax kasalinensis Emery, 1909

• Solenopsis fugax orientalis Ruzsky, 1905

• Solenopsis fugax pontica Santschi, 1934

• Solenopsis fugax scythica Santschi, 1934

• Solenopsis laevithorax Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis monticola Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis nicaeensis Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis orbula latroides Ruzsky, 1905

• Solenopsis provincialis Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis pygmaea Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis richardi Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis robusta Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis rugosa Bernard, 1950

• Solenopsis tertialis Ettershank, 1966

fugax cypridis Santschi, 1934 (Cyprus)

fugax emesa Tohmé, H. & Tohmé, G., 1980 (Syrian Arab Republic)

fugax karaki Tohmé, H. & Tohmé, G., 1980 (Syrian Arab Republic)

fugax tisiphone Santschi, 1934 (Tunisia)

fusciventris Clark, 1934 (Australia)

G
gallardoi Santschi, 1925 (Argentina)

gallica Santschi, 1934 (France)

gayi (Spinola, 1851) (Chile, Peru)

• Solenopsis gayi fazi Santschi, 1923

geminata (Fabricius, 1804) (American Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Greater Antilles, Greece, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Lesser Antilles, Liberia, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam)

• Atta clypeata Smith, F., 1858

• Atta coloradensis Buckley, 1867

• Atta lincecumii Buckley, 1867

• Atta rufa Jerdon, 1851

• Crematogaster laboriosus Smith, F., 1860

• Diplorhoptrum drewseni Mayr, 1861

• Myrmica glaber Smith, F., 1862

• Myrmica laevissima Smith, F., 1860

• Myrmica mellea Smith, F., 1859

• Myrmica paleata Lund, 1831

• Myrmica polita Smith, F. 1862

• Myrmica saxicola Buckley, 1867

• Solenopsis cephalotes Smith, F., 1859

• Solenopsis edouardi bahiaensis Santschi, 1925

• Solenopsis edouardi perversa Santschi, 1925

• Solenopsis eduardi Forel, 1912

• Solenopsis geminata diabola Wheeler, W.M., 1908

• Solenopsis geminata galapageia Wheeler, W.M., 1919

• Solenopsis geminata innota Santschi, 1915

• Solenopsis geminata medusa Mann, 1916

• Solenopsis geminata nigra Forel, 1908

• Solenopsis mandibularis Westwood, 1840

geminata micans Stitz, 1912 (Indonesia)

georgica Menozzi, 1942 (Equatorial Guinea)

germaini Emery, 1895 (Chile)

• Solenopsis germaini schedingi Forel, 1907

globularia (Smith, F., 1858) (Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Greater Antilles, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Saint Helena, Saint Lucia)

globularia desecheoensis Mann, 1920 (Puerto Rico)

globularia littoralis Creighton, 1930 (United States)

• Solenopsis globularia mobilensis Smith, M.R., 1931

globularia lucayensis Wheeler, W.M., 1908 (Bahamas)

globularia pacifica Wheeler, W.M., 1919 (Ecuador)

globularia steinheili Forel, 1881 (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico)

• Solenopsis globularia borinquenensis Wheeler, W.M., 1908

• Solenopsis globularia cubaensis Wheeler, W.M., 1913

gnoma Pacheco, Herrera & Mackay, 2007 (Ecuador)

gnomula Emery, 1915 (Eritrea, Ethiopia)

goeldii Forel, 1912 (Brazil)

granivora Kusnezov, 1957 (Argentina)

H
hammari Mayr, 1903 (Brazil)

hammari carhuensis Forel, 1912 (Argentina)

hayemi Forel, 1908 (Costa Rica)

helena Emery, 1895 (Brazil, Chile)

helena hermione Wheeler, W.M., 1921 (Guyana)

helena ultrix Wheeler, W.M., 1921 (Guyana)

hostilis (Borgmeier, 1959) (Brazil)

I
iheringi Forel, 1908 (Brazil, Paraguay)

ilinei Santschi, 1936 (Brazil, Georgia)

• Solenopsis orbula oculata Karavaiev, 1926

indagatrix Wheeler, W.M., 1928 (China)

insculpta Clark, 1938 (Australia)

insinuans Santschi, 1933 (Uganda)

interrupta Santschi, 1916 (Argentina, Bolivia)

invicta Buren, 1972 (Anguilla, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, China, Greater Antilles, Hawaii, Maldives, Montserrat, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin (French part), Trinidad and Tobago, United States Virgin Islands, United States)

• Solenopsis saevissima wagneri Santschi, 1916

J
jacoti Wheeler, W.M., 1923 (China)

jacoti pekingensis Wheeler, W.M., 1923 (China)

jalalabadica Pisarski, 1970 (Afghanistan)

japonica Wheeler, W.M., 1928 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan)

joergenseni Santschi, 1919 (Argentina)

joergenseni cuspisior Santschi, 1923 (Argentina)

joergenseni edentula Santschi, 1933 (Argentina)

juliae (Arakelian, 1991) (Armenia)

K
kabylica Santschi, 1934 (Algeria)

knuti Pisarski, 1967 (Afghanistan)

kochi Finzi, 1936 (Egypt)

krockowi Wheeler, W.M., 1908 (Mexico, United States)

L
laeviceps Mayr, 1870 (Brazil, Colombia, Panama)

laeviceps antoniensis Forel, 1912 (Colombia)

latastei Emery, 1895 (Chile)

• Solenopsis latastei hoffmanni Forel, 1912

latastei masora Forel, 1912 (Chile)

latro Forel, 1894 (Algeria, Balearic Islands, Greece, Iberian Peninsula, Israel, Spain)

latro msilana Forel, 1894 (Algeria)

latro sicula Emery, 1915 (Italy)

leptanilloides Santschi, 1925 (Argentina)

longiceps Forel, 1907 (Tunisia)

longiceps barbara Santschi, 1934 (Tunisia)

loretana Santschi, 1936 (Argentina, Paraguay)

lotophaga Santschi, 1911 (Tunisia)

lou Forel, 1902 (Algeria)

• Solenopsis latro aurata Karavaiev, 1912

lusitanica Emery, 1915 (Iberian Peninsula, Portugal, Spain)

lusitanica gaetula Santschi, 1936 (Morocco)

M
maboya Snelling, R.R., 2001 (Puerto Rico)

macdonaghi Santschi, 1916 (Argentina, Paraguay)

macrops Santschi, 1917 (Argentina)

madara Roger, 1863 (United States)

maligna Santschi, 1910 (Congo)

mameti Donisthorpe, 1946 (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion)

marxi Forel, 1915 (Indonesia)

• Solenopsis pygmaea Forel, 1905

maxillosa Emery, 1900 (New Guinea)

medioclara Santschi, 1923 (Brazil, Paraguay)

megera Santschi, 1934 (Tunisia)

megergates Trager, 1991 (Brazil, Paraguay)

metanotalis Emery, 1896 (Argentina, Brazil)

metanotalis arga Santschi, 1923 (Argentina)

metanotalis emiliae Santschi, 1912 (Argentina, Uruguay)

metanotalis pelotana Forel, 1912 (Argentina, Brazil)

metanotalis picturata Santschi, 1931 (Argentina)

metatarsalis (Kusnezov, 1957) (Argentina)

minutissima Emery, 1906 (Argentina, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago)

• Solenopsis saevissima morosa Santschi, 1916

molesta (Say, 1836) (United States)

• Myrmica exigua Buckley, 1867

• Myrmica minuta Say, 1836

• Solenopsis debilis Mayr, 1886

• Solenopsis molesta validiuscula Emery, 1895

mozabensis (Bernard, 1977) (Algeria)

N
nickersoni Thompson, 1982 (United States)

nigella Emery, 1888 (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)

nigella gensterblumi Forel, 1901 (Argentina, Brazil)

• Solenopsis nigella prevalens Santschi, 1923

nitens Bingham, 1903 (Sri Lanka)

nitida (Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994) (Armenia)

normandi Santschi, 1934 (Tunisia)

novemmaculata Wheeler, W.M., 1925 (Bolivia)

O
occipitalis Santschi, 1911 (Tunisia)

oculata Santschi, 1925 (Argentina)

omana Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 (Oman, United Arab Emirates)

oraniensis Forel, 1894 (Algeria, Iberian Peninsula, Portugal, Spain)

orbula Emery, 1875 (France, Iberian Peninsula, Israel, Malta, Spain)

orbula terniensis Forel, 1905 (Algeria, Israel)

orbuloides André, 1890 (Senegal, Sierra Leone)

overbecki Viehmeyer, 1916 (Singapore)

P
pachycera (Forel, 1915) (Australia)

papuana Emery, 1900 (Fiji, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), New Caledonia, New Guinea, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna Islands)

• Solenopsis cleptis Mann, 1919

• Solenopsis cleptis vitiensis Mann, 1921

• Solenopsis dahlii Forel, 1901

parabiotica Weber, 1943 (Brazil, Guyana, Peru)

parva Mayr, 1868 (Argentina)

patagonica Emery, 1906 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile)

• Solenopsis thoracica Santschi, 1923

patagonica medeis Forel, 1912 (Argentina, Brazil)

pawaensis Mann, 1919 (Solomon Islands)

pergandei Forel, 1901 (United States)

phoretica Davis & Deyrup, 2006 (United States)

photophila Santschi, 1923 (Argentina)

picea Emery, 1896 (Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Greater Antilles, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico)

picea reducta Menozzi, 1927 (Costa Rica)

picea subadpressa Forel, 1903 (Bolivia, Brazil)

picquarti Forel, 1899 (Costa Rica)

picta Emery, 1895 (United States)

• Solenopsis picta moerens Wheeler, W.M., 1915

pilosula Wheeler, W.M., 1908 (Mexico, United States)

pollux Forel, 1893 (Brazil, Dominican Republic, Greater Antilles, Haiti, Lesser Antilles)

punctaticeps Mayr, 1865 (Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania)

punctaticeps caffra Forel, 1894 (South Africa)

• Solenopsis punctaticeps cyclops Santschi, 1914

• Solenopsis punctaticeps diversipilosa Mayr, 1901

punctaticeps cleptomana Santschi, 1914 (Kenya)

punctaticeps erythraea Emery, 1915 (Eritrea, Ethiopia)

punctaticeps fur Santschi, 1926 (Zimbabwe)

punctaticeps indocilis Santschi, 1914 (Guinea)

punctaticeps juba Weber, 1943 (Sudan)

punctaticeps kibaliensis Wheeler, W.M., 1922 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

puncticeps Mackay & Vinson, 1989 (United States)

pusillignis Trager, 1991 (Brazil)

pygmaea Forel, 1901 (Puerto Rico)

• Solenopsis exigua Forel, 1893

pythia Santschi, 1934 (Argentina)

Q
quinquecuspis Forel, 1913 (Argentina, Uruguay)

• Solenopsis blumi Buren, 1972

R
reichenspergeri Santschi, 1923 (Brazil)

richteri Forel, 1909 (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, United States, Uruguay)

• Solenopsis pylades tricuspis Forel, 1912

• Solenopsis saevissima oblongiceps Santschi, 1936

rugiceps Mayr, 1870 (Colombia)

S
sabeana (Buckley, 1867) (United States)

saevissima (Smith, F., 1855) (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guinea, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay)

• Solenopsis geminata incrassata Forel, 1908

• Solenopsis moelleri Forel, 1904

• Solenopsis moelleri gracilior Forel, 1904

• Solenopsis saevissima perfida Santschi, 1923

saevissima itinerans Forel, 1911 (Kenya)

salina Wheeler, W.M., 1908 (United States)

santschii Forel, 1905 (Israel, Malta, Tunisia)

saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 (Saudi Arabia)

scelesta Forel, 1908 (Brazil, Paraguay)

schilleri Santschi, 1923 (Argentina)

schmalzi Forel, 1901 (Brazil, Paraguay)

schmalzi flaveolens Forel, 1901 (Brazil)

scipio Santschi, 1911 (Tunisia)

sea (Kusnezov, 1953) (Argentina)

seychellensis Forel, 1909 (Seychelles)

shiptoni Forel, 1914 (Argentina)

silvestrii Emery, 1906 (Uruguay)

solenopsidis (Kusnezov, 1953) (Argentina)

soochowensis Wheeler, W.M., 1921 (China)

soochowensis pieli Santschi, 1925 (China)

spei Forel, 1912 (Colombia)

steigeri Santschi, 1916 (Argentina, Paraguay)

• Solenopsis globularia cubaensis Wheeler, W.M., 1913

stricta Emery, 1896 (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay)

stricta foederata Santschi, 1923 (Brazil)

substituta Santschi, 1925 (Brazil, Paraguay)

subterranea Mackay & Vinson, 1989 (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, United States)

subtilis Emery, 1896 (Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela)

succinea Emery, 1890 (Brazil, Costa Rica, Greater Antilles, Guatemala, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Puerto Rico)

• Solenopsis inermiceps Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914

succinea nicai Forel, 1913 (Argentina, Brazil)

sulfurea (Roger, 1862) (French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela)

sumara Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 (Yemen)

T
targuia Bernard, 1953 (Algeria)

tennesseensis Smith, M.R., 1951 (United States)

• Solenopsis longiceps Smith, M.R., 1943

tenuis Mayr, 1878 (Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago)

tenuis delfinoi Forel, 1913 (Argentina)

tenuis minuiscens Forel, 1912 (Brazil)

terricola Menozzi, 1931 (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico)

tetracantha Emery, 1906 (Argentina, Paraguay)

tetracantha videns Forel, 1912 (Argentina)

texana Emery, 1895 (Canada)

• Solenopsis rosella Kennedy, 1938

texana catalinae Wheeler, W.M., 1904 (United States)

tipuna Forel, 1912 (China, Japan, Taiwan)

tonsa Thompson, 1989 (United States)

torresi Snelling, R.R., 2001 (Puerto Rico)

tridens Forel, 1911 (Brazil)

tridens lehmannnitschei Santschi, 1916 (Argentina)

trihasta Santschi, 1923 (Argentina)

truncorum Forel, 1901 (United States)

• Solenopsis molesta castanea Wheeler, W.M., 1908

U
ugandensis Santschi, 1933 (Uganda)

ugandensis congolensis Santschi, 1935 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

V
virulens (Smith, F., 1858) (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador)

• Solenopsis bondari Santschi, 1925

vorax Santschi, 1934 (Russian Federation)

W
wasmannii Emery, 1894 (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay)

• Solenopsis wasmanni transformis Forel, 1911

weiseri Forel, 1914 (Argentina)

westwoodi Forel, 1894 (Brazil)

westwoodi atticola Forel, 1912 (Argentina)

westwoodi platensis Emery, 1906 (Argentina)

weyrauchi Trager, 1991 (Peru)

wolfi Emery, 1915 (Croatia, Greece, Iran, Slovenia)

X
xyloni McCook, 1879 (Mexico, United States)

• Solenopsis geminata maniosa Wheeler, W.M., 1915

• Solenopsis geminata pylades Forel, 1904

Z
zambesiae Arnold, 1926 (Zimbabwe)

zeteki Wheeler, W.M., 1942 (Costa Rica, Panama)

zingibara Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 (Yemen)

=Fossil Species=

A
alena Özdikmen, 2010 (France (Oligocene))

• Solenopsis major Théobald, 1937

B
blanda (Förster, 1891) (Germany (Oligocene))

• Attopsis acuta Förster, 1891

F
foersteri Théobald, 1937 (France (Oligocene))

M
maxima (Förster, 1891) (Germany (Oligocene))

moesta (Förster, 1891) (Germany (Oligocene))

P
privata (Förster, 1891) (Germany (Oligocene))

S
superba (Förster, 1891) (Germany (Oligocene))

• Attopsis extensa Förster, 1891

V
valida (Förster, 1891) (Germany (Oligocene))