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Pavement ant

Tetramorium immigrans Santschi, 1927

Status not recordedbees wasps and ants

The pavement ant (Tetramorium immigrans) is a species in the family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera.

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Quick facts about the pavement 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 pavement ant live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pavement ant as introduced in 3 countries.

  1. Cyprus
  2. Poland
  3. 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 pavement 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 pavement ant classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHymenoptera
  5. familyFormicidae
  6. genusTetramorium
  7. SpeciesTetramorium immigrans Santschi, 1927

Synonyms Tetramorium caespitum immigrans, Tetramorium caespitum var. immigrans

Other names and names in other languages (5)
  • Immigrant pavement antEnglish
  • North American pavement antEnglish
  • VejfrømyreDanish
  • Fourmi des pavésFrench
  • Gyakori gyepihangyaHungarian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the pavement 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 pavement ant an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pavement ant as introduced in 3 countries: Cyprus, Poland and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the pavement ant?

The pavement ant (Tetramorium immigrans) belongs to the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Pavement ant (Tetramorium immigrans). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pavement-ant

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“Pavement ant (Tetramorium immigrans).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pavement-ant.

BibTeX
@misc{pavement_ant_2026,
  title = {Pavement ant (Tetramorium immigrans)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pavement-ant},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}