Jongwon Song, Seung won Lee‡, Jong-Chul Jeong§, Yong-Hoon Kim|, Heejo Lee¶, Dong Eon Kim¶, Youngho Cho‡Corresponding author: Jongwon Song ( rlemd1@nie.re.kr ) Corresponding author: Youngho Cho ( themoth@nie.re.kr ) © Jongwon Song, Seung won Lee, Jong-Chul Jeong, Yong-Hoon Kim, Heejo Lee, Dong Eon Kim, Youngho Cho. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Song J, Lee S, Jeong J-C, Kim Y-H, Lee H, Kim DE, Cho Y (2022) Ant occurrence dataset regarding Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), first recorded in Busan, South Korea. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e97545 |  |
This study contains information regarding the occurrence of ants in the area near Busan station, where the invasion of Linepithema humile was reported for the first time in South Korea. The Argentine ant is '100 of World’s Worst invasive Alien Species', commonly discovered in disturbed places, and its spread to other areas causes local ecosystem disturbances. Therefore, we investigated the associated fauna in the invaded areas to determine the L. humile invasion effects on the native ants in Busan, Korea.
This study is based on a field study conducted over four days, from July 12 to July 15, 2022. The location information of the 3,383 individuals, consisting of 14 species of Formicidae in the L. humile-invaded area is also provided. All data in the study site, excluding those regarding L. humile, were reported for the first time.