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.