Tetramorium guineense (Fabricius)

Swezey, O. H., 1942, Hymenoptera Formicidae of Guam, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 175-183 : 179

*19. Tetramorium guineense (Fabricius) .

Formica guineense Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 2: 357, 1793.

Tetramorimn guinecnse (Fabricius) Bingham, Fauna Brit. India, Hymenopt. 2: 184, 1903. Wheeler, New York Ent. Soc., Jour. 20: 46, 1912; B. P. Bishop Mus., 0cc. Papers 11 (11): 30, 1935.

This red pantropical ant is distributed throughout the Pacific area and to India. It was collected in Guam by Fullaway in 1911 , and is one of the very abundant species. It was collected practically everywhere, and in many situations: in cane fields, often nesting in rotten cane, often associated with mealybugs ; in the house , the garden , and lawn ; nesting under bark of Pithecolobium , in dead branch of breadfruit and orange , in rotten bamboo stumps ; on corn , cacao , and pumpkin vines . In one nest among bases of coconut leaf stems were the small yellow lepismicls which are inhabitants of ant nests .