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title: "Odorous House Ant"
description: "Tapinoma sessile — Insetos e aranhas. Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/odorous-house-ant
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Odorous House Ant

> Tapinoma sessile — Insetos e aranhas. Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant.

- Scientific name: *Tapinoma sessile*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `urban` (Cidades e jardins)
- iNaturalist observations: 18592
- Wikidata: [Q3912142](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3912142)
- iNaturalist taxon: [47340](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47340)

## Names

- en: Odorous House Ant

## Countries with the most observations

US (10185), CA (709), MX (51)

## Summary

Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant. Their colonies are polydomous (consisting of multiple nests) and polygynous (containing multiple reproducing queens). Like many social insects, T. sessile employs complex foraging strategies, allocates food depending on environmental conditions, and engages in competition with other insects.
T. sessile can be found in a huge diversity of habitats, including within houses. They forage mainly for honeydew, which is produced by aphids and scale insects that are guarded and tended by the ants…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapinoma_sessile

## Photo

![Odorous House Ant](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/odorous-house-ant/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/378984470

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/odorous-house-ant?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).