Mrówki (Formicidae) Sudetów

Common names for Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Most insects do not have common names, and this is a significant barrier to public interest in them, and to their study by non-specialists. This holds for even highly familiar insect groups such as ants. Here, I propose common names for all major native Australian ant genera and species-groups, as well as for many of the most abundant and distinctive species. Sixty-two genera, 142 species-group...

A North Florida Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Ants (Formicidae): models for social complexity.

The family Formicidae (ants) is composed of more than 12,000 described species that vary greatly in size, morphology, behavior, life history, ecology, and social organization. Ants occur in most terrestrial habitats and are the dominant animals in many of them. They have been used as models to address fundamental questions in ecology, evolution, behavior, and development. The literature on ants...

The first report of Tapinoma israele (Hym.: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Iran

طی مطالعه مورچه‌های جنس Tapinoma Förster در موزه حشرات هایک میرزایانس، موسسه تحقیقات گیاه‌پزشکی کشور، تهران، که از استان مازندران جمع‌آوری شده بودند، یک گونه با نام علمی Tapinoma israele Forel, 1904 شناسایی شد. این گونه تا‌کنون از ایران گزارش نشده است.

Rediscovery of Crematogaster subgenus Colobocrema (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Southeast Asia

The Crematogaster subgenus Colobocrema was established to include the single species C. cylindriceps Wheeler, based on a single queen from the Philippines. We discovered a species close to or the same as C. cylindriceps in Borneo and provide descriptions of the queen, worker and male. This species lives in live climber plants of secondary and primary rainforests. The phragmotic morphology chara...