[3] Invasive pest ants in Florida, previously identified as T. albipes, have now been separated as Technomyrmex difficilis, both forming part of a species complex with a worldwide distribution.

[5] The white-footed ant is native to the Indo-Pacific area, and has been introduced into Australia, Africa, North America, the Caribbean and parts of Asia.

Tent-like nests are made out of debris in trees, bushes, rotten logs, under rocks, in leaf litter and similar places.

So successful is this reproductive strategy that colonies grow to very large sizes, sometimes containing millions of individuals, and may occupy multiple nest sites.

Similarly in South Africa, the ant has encouraged outbreaks of the red scale insect (Aonidiella aurantii),[1] a major pest of citrus in the country.