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Dark Guest ant

Tetramorium atratulum (Schenck, 1852)

Status not recordedbees wasps and ants

The dark guest ant (Tetramorium atratulum) is a species in the family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera.

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Quick facts about the dark guest ant

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the dark guest ant live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the dark guest ant as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the dark guest ant endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the dark guest ant classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHymenoptera
  5. familyFormicidae
  6. genusTetramorium
  7. SpeciesTetramorium atratulum (Schenck, 1852)

Synonyms Anergates atratulus, Anergates friedlandi, Myrmica atratula, Tetramorium friedlandi

Other names and names in other languages (10)
  • Small Workerless antEnglish
  • mravenec bachratýCzech
  • GøgemyreDanish
  • loisnummimuurahainenFinnish
  • satnya gyepihangyaHungarian
  • gjøkmaurNorwegian Bokmål
  • WoekermierDutch
  • Муравей-паразитRussian
  • gökmyraSwedish
  • GøgefrømyreDanish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the dark guest ant

Other species in the same genus Tetramorium.

Turf ant

Tetramorium caespitum

FormicidaeNo free photo yet

Penny ant

Tetramorium bicarinatum

FormicidaeNo free photo yet

Wooly ant

Tetramorium lanuginosum

FormicidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the dark guest ant an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the dark guest ant as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the dark guest ant?

The dark guest ant (Tetramorium atratulum) belongs to the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Dark Guest ant (Tetramorium atratulum). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dark-guest-ant

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“Dark Guest ant (Tetramorium atratulum).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/dark-guest-ant.

BibTeX
@misc{dark_guest_ant_2026,
  title = {Dark Guest ant (Tetramorium atratulum)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dark-guest-ant},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}