Oussalah, N., Marniche, F., Espadaler, X., Biche M., 2019. Exotic ants from the Maghreb (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with first report of the Hairy Alien Ant Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi (Mayr) in Algeria. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, 17, Doi: https://doi.org/10.32800/amz.2019.17.0045

 

Table  1. First reports of exotic ant species in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco (North Africa).

Tabla  1. Primeros registros de especies exóticas de hormigas en Argelia, Túnez y Marruecos (Norte de África).

 

Data published through GBIF (Doi:10.15470/dgay4r)

 

Species

Algeria

Tunisia

Morocco

Putative native range

 

Cardiocondyla emeryi

 

 

 

1992

Africa (Wetterer, 2012)

 

Hypoponera punctatissima

 

 

Santschi (1923)

 

Santschi (1921)

 

Africa and Europe (Bolton and Fisher, 2011)

 

Linepithema humile

 

1923 (Frisque, 1935) and Barech et al. (2015)

≤ 2005 (Wetterer et al., 2009)

1964  (Taheri and Reyes-López, 2015)

Subtropical South America (Wetterer, 2009)

 

Lioponera longitarsus

Barech et al. (2017) in olive grove Nouara M’sila

Santschi (1910) as L. noctambula

Guillem et al. (2012) as Cerapachys

South-East Asia (Antweb, 2018)
 

 

Monomorium pharaonis

1862 (Roger, 1862) noted by Bernard  (1967)

≤ 1940 (F. Santschi, MCZ) in Wetterer (2010)

≤ 1962 (Cagniant, 1962)

Taheri and Reyes-López (2018)

Tropical Asia (Wetterer, 2010)

 

Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi

ITMAS Heuraoua, citrus grove,'Algiers, new record

ENSV Harrach Algiers, new record

 

Taheri et al. (2017) in Tangier

Afrotropical (LaPolla et al., 2011)

 

Paratrechina longicornis

Cagniant (1970)

 

 

Taheri et al. (2010)

Indo-Malayan (Wetterer, 2015)

 

Pheidole indica (= P. teneriffana)

 

1908 (Santschi, 1908)

1992 (Delabie, 2007)

Indo-Malayan (Sarnat et al., 2015)

 

Pheidole megacephala

≤ 1883 (André, 1883)

 

1889 (Forel, 1890) in Wetterer (2012)

≤ 1888 (Saunders 1888) in

Wetterer (2012) 

Afrotropical (Sarnat et al., 2015)

 

Strumigenys membranifera

Chemala et al. (2017) in Aïn Moussa, Ouargla, wild ecosystem

≤ 1904 (Forel, 1904) as S. membranifera santschii 

Taheri et al. (2017) in Marrakesh
 

Afrotropical (Wetterer, 2015)

 

Tetramorium bicarinatum

 

Bernard (1960) as T. guineense

<1965 (Bernard, 1965) as T. guineense

<1962 (Cagniant 1962) as T. guineense

SE Asian (Wetterer, 2009b)

 

Tetramorium caldarium

 

 

 

1993 (Cagniant and Espadaler, 1993)

Afrotropical (Wetterer, 2015)

 

Tetramorium lanuginosum

Barech et al. (2011) in INA Algiers, irrigated garden

≤ 1890 (Emery, 1891) as T. striatidens

 

Taheri and Reyes-López (2018) in Al-Hoceima; Casablanca, Larache, Nador

Indomalayan (Wetterer, 2015)

Trichomyrmex destructor

(= Monomorium destructor)

André (1883: 333) as Monomorium gracillimum

 

≤ 1908 (Emery, 1908) as M. gracillimum 

Figuig (Cagniant, 2009)

Palaearctic (Wetterer, 2015)