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Wooly Ant

Tetramorium lanuginosum

Classification

Class
Insecta

In ecology, a tramp species is an organism that has been spread globally by human activities. The term was coined by William Morton Wheeler in the bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History in 1906, used to describe ants that “have made their way as well known tramps or stow-aways [sic] to many islands". The term has since widened to include non-ant organisms, but remains most popular in myrmecology.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Mexico · 24United States of America · 5Brazil · 1France · 1Netherlands · 1Portugal · 1