Anoplolepis longipes (Jerdon)

Swezey, O. H., 1942, Hymenoptera Formicidae of Guam, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 175-183 : 181

24. Anoplolepis longipes (Jerdon) .

Formica longipes Jerdon, Madras Lit. Sci., Jour. 17: 122, 1851.

Plagiolepis longipes (Jerdon) Bingham, Fauna Brit. India, Hymenopt. 2: 320, fig. 97, 1903.

Anoplolepis longipes (Jerdon) Wheeler, B. P. Bishop Mus., 0cc. Papers 11 (11): 37, 1935; 12 (18): 15, 1936.

This lively, long-legged, yellowish ant is distributed throughout the Pacific islands, Papua, Indomalaya, Reunion, Ceylon, India, and Burma. It was collected in Guam by Fullaway in 1911 . We collected it practically everywhere we went in Guam in 1936, and in many kinds of situations. Nests were in rotten logs, under stones , and one populous nest was in the dead frond of the giant fern ( Angiopteris eveeta ). They were lively on garden plants and shrubpery , and could be swept from most plants in the forests . They were always running on the floor of our residence and in corners , and any insect dropped on the floor would soon be found and dragged off. The female is brown and many times larger than the worker. The male is a little larger than the worker and of the same color.