Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cardiocondyla wroughtonii
Hormiga, Ant
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Suborder
Apocrita
Superfamily
Vespoidea
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Cardiocondyla
Species
wroughtonii
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Introduced - not established
Year of first record: 2016
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Stowaway
Subpathway: Hitchhiker on airplanes
Introduced status: Intercepted
- Agencia de Regulación y Control de la Bioseguridad y Cuarentena para Galápagos (2017) Especies identificadas en medios de transporte. Compilado por M. Mejia & M. Ramos
- García-Ruilova, A. B. Donoso, D. A., Basset, Y., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., Garcés-Carrera, S., Jarrín-V, P., Muñoz-Tobar, S. I., Padhye, S., Perez, K. H. J., Sones, J. E., Quiñónez-Sánchez, D., Sánchez, P., Smith, M. A., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Hebert, P. D. N., & Inclán, D. J. (2026) Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion. Sci Data 13, 1026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07465-z
You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.
This page should be cited as follows:
"Galapagos Species Database, Cardiocondyla wroughtonii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25214. Accessed 5 November 2026.