Wasmannia

{{Short description|Genus of ants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Wasmannia auropunctata casent0005064 profile 1.jpg

| image_caption = Wasmannia auropunctata worker

| taxon = Wasmannia

| authority = Forel, 1893

| type_species = Tetramorium auropunctatum

| type_species_authority = Roger, 1863

| diversity_link = #Species

| diversity = 10 species

| diversity_ref = {{AntCat|429637|Wasmannia|2015|access-date=20 January 2015}}

| synonyms = Hercynia Enzmann, J., 1947

}}

Wasmannia is a genus of ants. Wasmannia auropunctata is known as the electric ant[http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dpi/hs.xsl/4790_6453_ENA_HTML.htm Electric ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) webpage] Accessed 7 March 2009 or little fire ant and are considered by many countries to be a destructive, highly invasive species.[http://www.issg.org/database/species/search.asp?st=100ss&fr=1&str Global Invasive Species Database - No. 100 - Wasmannia auropunctata]{{cite web| vauthors = Lowe S, Browne M, Boudjelas S, De Poorter M| title = 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species: A Selection from the Global Invasive Species Database| work = Invasive Species Specialist Group| publisher = IUCN| year = 2004| url = http://www.issg.org/booklet.pdf| access-date = 2006-08-21 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060813140124/http://www.issg.org/booklet.pdf |archive-date = 2006-08-13}}