A Taxonomic Ant Picturebase of Asia and Europe

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Web Name: A Taxonomic Ant Picturebase of Asia and Europe

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A new ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY paper on the biology of Discothyrea sauteri in Japan paper went online first In September 2020, Keiichi Masuko published a new paper on the biology of Discothyrea sauteri in Japan. The author presents information on colony composition, arthropod egg predation, and antennal structure of this cryptic ant species. Here, you may download a PDF of this new ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY paper Identification key of the Japanese Pheidole queens The Japanese ant specialists Seiki Yamane and Shingo Hosoishi recently published a paper "Identification of the Japanese species of the ant genus Pheidole based on queen characters" in the Japanese Journal of Entomology. This project aims to supply such kind of keys for most of the Japanese genera to help biodiversity researchers in Japan, so the language used is Japanese. However, in Appendix 2 an English translation of the key is provided. As a scientific service for readers of AntBase.Net we provide the original high-quality pictures taken by Shingo Hosoishi. Please have a look! We thank the authors and the Japanese Journal of Entomology for permission to present this unique contribution. Note that that there is an error in the first key on page 52 (line 7 from bottom; please replace "8" with "P. susanowo"). ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY A new paper went online first: Strumigenys of Korea Min-Soo Dong and Sam-Kyu Kim just published a new paper about Strumigenys in South Korea. Besides a description of a new species, the authors present a detailed key and taxonomic information on all Stumigenys species of South Korea. And of course, ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY always offers free access to all of its papers! Announcement: passing of Ass. Prof. Dr Bakhtiar Effendi Bin Yahya The editors of Asian Myrmecology deeply regret the passing of one of their editorial staff, Ass. Prof. Dr Bakhtiar Effendi Bin Yahya. Dr Bakhtiar completed his PhD at Kagoshima University (Japan) and wrote his dissertation on the ant genus Myrmicaria in Southeast Asia. He returned to Borneo, where he later became Associate Professor at the Institut Biologi Tropika dan Pemuliharaan (IBTP) of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in Kota Kinabalu. Bakhtiar was a key member of Asian Myrmecology and ANeT, and supported the journal through both administration at the University Malaysia Sabah, and through duties as an editor and reviewer. Ant research in Borneo has suffered a great loss. He will be sadly missed. We mourn with his family, friends and colleagues. Report on the ANeT meeting 2019 in Thailand From nesting ecology of Polyrhachis in Thailand's dry evergreen forests, the secret live of Rhopalomastix inside the tree bark, ants along an elevational gradient in New Guinea, DNA barcoding of ants from the Philipinnes to the description of new Platythyrea species: the the 12thAneT meeting in Bangkok covered a large array of different trending myrmecological topics and was attended by more than 83 participants from at least 17 countries. Read more about this inspiring ant conference! Global Ants Database Upgrade to make all data open access Today, the Global Ants Database (GLAD) became open access. Access via the web interface will still require registration, but after the automatic approval, all registered users will be able to search and download from the GLAD database. Explore the newest web-based tool of ant ecology! New in August Webstory part 6: Expedition to collect ants at the Mount Mulu in Sarawak Just a short notice, the sixth and last part of the webstory of Dr. Dirk Mezger and his ant collecting expedition just went online! Have a look at the sixth part of this webstory! ANeT meeting 2019: Registration and abstract submission open Now, you may register and submit an abstract for ANeT conference 2019 which will be held at the Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand from 11th to 15th November 2019. For more information, please have a look to the website of the ANeT meeting 2019 or download this conference flyer. Please keep in mind that there is a deadline for the submission of abstracts: 1st October 2019 New in July: More High resolution ant pictures and part five of Dirk Mezger's Webstory In July, we present part five of Dr. Dirk Mezger's webstory about his ant collecting expedition. This part is about the lab work and the exploration of the area around the headquarters of the Gunung Mulu National Park. And we present some high resolution photographs of ants collected during this expedition. Have fun with both of them! New images of ants from Sarawak! Enjoy the summer with part five of the webstory! Webstory part 4: Dirk Mezger's expedition to collect ants at the Mount Mulu in Sarawak New on 04th June 2019: the fourth part of the webstory of Dr. Dirk Mezger and his ant collecting expedition is online! This part is about field work on Mount Mulu and the return to the HQ! Have a look at part four of this webstory! Webstory part 3: Dirk Mezger's expedition to collect ants at the Mount Mulu in Sarawak New on 22th May 2019: the third part of the webstory of Dr. Dirk Mezger and his ant collecting expedition is online! Have a look at the third part of this webstory! Webstory part 2: Expedition to collect ants at the Mount Mulu in Sarawak Just a short notice, second part of the webstory of Dr. Dirk Mezger and his ant collecting expedition just went online! Have a look at the second part of this webstory! ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY Volume 10 published and another paper went online first 11th May 2019 was an important day for ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY. On this day, the print edition of volume 10 was made available online. Furthermore, one more paper went online first. This paper is a redescription of Monomorium pallidum based on specimen from Iran by Lech Borowiec and co-authors. Moreover, this is the first paper of ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY published in a new design. And of course, ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY always offers free access to all of its papers! Webstory: Expedition to collect ants at the Mount Mulu in Sarawak In March and April 2019, Dr. Dirk Mezger from the University of Bayreuth, Germany and antbase.net startet his expedition to collect ants in the montane forest of Gunung Mulu National Park. Here, he will report in a webstory what he has to be done to uncover some secrets of the ants from Borneo. Regular updates on this webstory will soon follow! Have a look at the first part of this webstory! New in February: New ant pictures from Malaysia In February 2019, we present a small selection of ants from Malaysia from our Antbase.Net Collection. This selection even includes an alate of Colobopsis explodens which was described last year as a species new to science by Alice Laciny and Herbert Zettel. Have fun with our rain forest ants from Malaysia! First Announcement of the 12th ANeT International Conference 2019 The 12th ANeT International Conference 2019 will take place from 11 - 15 Nov, 2019 at Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. More information regarding registration, abstract submission and other relevant data will follow soon. New in January: More ant pictures from all over the world Happy New Year! We hope you had a good start to 2019! This month, we present another colourful selection of ants from Italy, Ivory Coast, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia from our Antbase.Net Collection. Enjoy the first month of 2019 with our new ant photographs! First record of Brachymyrmex patagonicus from continental AsiaAnother new paper went Online First in December! On 31st December 2918, a new Asian Myrmecology paper went online first. Benoit Gu nard reports on the discovery of Brachymyrmex patagonicus in Hong Hong which is the first record of this emerging global pest ant from continental Asia.. Have a look at the newest findings in ant research! New in December: New photographs of ants as Xmas gift This month, we invite you to another myrmecological journey around the world. We present high resolution pictures of ants from Martinique, the United States, Germany, Namibia and Malaysia as Xmas present to our users. Have a look at our treasures of Antbase.net Collection! Enjoy your holiday season with our ant pictures! Dr. Florian Menzel, University of Mainz, Germany is offering a PhD position in the behavioural ecology of ants. The candidate will investigate behavioural responses to footprints in ants, their chemical and behavioural mechanisms, and the consequences for colony fitness and competitive interactions. He/she will perform lab and field experiments as well as simulation studies. Please remember that there is an application deadline: 15th December 2018.Please contact Dr. Florian Menzel for more information! New ant pictures from Asia and Europe In October 2018, we added a new colorful selection of ant pictures to our ever growing virtual collection on antbase.net. We present six species from Germany, Italy and India. This time, we even show some extras together with the ants pictures: for some specimen, we display a photograph of the habitat where the ant was collected. Or do you want to discover tiny arthropods associated with ants? Have a look and enjoy our new ant pictures! Christine Grabatin from the University of Bonn, Germany needs specimens for her PhD study on resin collecting ants. She is studying the mandible structure with SEM in order to to detect structures on the workers' mandibles that explain why the resin does not really stick to the mandibles when being worked. The results might provide new insights to the evolution of social behaviour. A number of species are most interesting for her project: Formica paralugubris, Gauromyrmex sp. and all Vollenhovia species, especially Vollenhovia sp. aff. acanthina Please contact Christine if you have any samples or want to share some information with here! More information on Christine's PhD project! 2018 Marlis Merbach In Memory of Ulrich Maschwitz (1937 - 2018) With great sadness we let you know that Prof. Ulrich Maschwitz passed away on 25th July 2018 after long illness. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Maschwitz dedicated his life to the study of Asian ants, with Malaysia as a focus point of his work. He was a real ant expert, a great observer, who knew fascinating details of the life history and behavioral ecology of rare (tropical) ants, guided his students to the most interesting fields of research and translated the observations into marvelous scientific reports of stunning ant behavior. His enthusiasm, spirit, humor and philanthropy will be missed sadly. Continue with an obitary written by Prof Dr. Heike Feldhaar. More pictures of ants from Germany This month, we present some ant photographs in order to enhance our section Ants of Germany. These specimens were collected by Seiki Yamane during his visit to Germany in spring 2016. Many thanks to Seiki san for providing these specimens! Enjoy our images of ants from Central Europe! Six new photographs of rare ants from Asia In April, we continue our presentations of new high resultation photographs of ants. This time, a selection of species from Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan is waiting for you! This selection cotains some very rare species like Protanilla lini and Paraparatrechina kongming which are rarely shown on other websites. Again, many thanks to Seiki Yamane san for providing these six-legged treasures! Have a look! Antbase.net grew constantly with an astonishing increase of the picture quality and the quantity since its foundation in 2004 with some very first simple technology photographs of ants from Malaysia. Currently antbase.net presents high resolution photographs of 1151 specimens from 826 species (deadline 8th February 2018) These specimens represent 119 genera and ten subfamilies. Even if antbase.net still has a focus on ants from Asia and the Palaearctic region, this website presents ants from 34 countries of all continents. Since the last decade experienced many changes in ant systematics due to countless advances in ant research, it was time for us to sort all species according to the current ant systematics. This work was used to integrate all ant photographs to the our database and doing a light cleanup on the website. We refreshed some country and regional presentations and removed a few outdated tools.We hope you enjoy the changes and invite you to explore the renewed antbase.net.Have fun! New in March: New pictures of six Polyrhachis species from Asia This month, we present a selection of charismatic Polyrhachis species from South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesiac as Easter gift to our user. These spiny ants are part of Seiki Yamane san's collection and Jochen Drescher's collection of the EFForTS project. Enjoy our high resolution photographs and Happy Easter! New pictures of ants from Germany In February 2018, we present some of high resolution photographs of ants from Germany in our monthly section. Again, these ants are part of Seiki Yamane san's collection who collected them during a visit to Germany in 2016. Have a look on five Formica species and Tapinoma erraticum! The ant fauna of Oman, Aphaenogster from Thailand and the morphology of Brachyponera sennaarensisThree new AM paper went Online First in February On 13th and 16th February 2018, three more Asian Myrmecology paper went online first. One paper presents an overview of the ant fauna of Oman including the description of two new species, a short communication explains the biology of six Aphaenogaster from Thailand and the third paper shows the morphology and ultrastructure of the ant Brachyponera sennaarensis. Have a look at the newest findings in myrmecology! Discoverants.com A new website with ant related educational resources for school teachers Recently, Dr. Magdalena Sorger launched a website called discoverants.com. This site is a hub for educational resources primarily for school teachers (with students age 6-18) who want to bring ants and ant science into their classrooms. This site provides educational material, citizen science projects and reading material. Even if this website is developed basically for the use in the United States, discoverants.com might be useful for educational projects all around the world. Volume 9 published and two more paper went online first 31st January 2018 was a very important day for ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY. On this day, the print edition of volume 9, printed in December 2017, was made available online. Furthermore, two more paper went online first. One paper is a description of a new Leptanilla species discovered in Macau by Chi-Man Leong, Seiki Yamane and Benoit Gu nard. The other paper deals with the taxonomy of an Aphaenogaster species from the Caucasus by Sebastian Salata and Lech Borowiec. And of course, ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY offers free access to all of its papers! New pictures of ants from Taiwan Happy New Year! 2018, we start our monthly section of new high resolution ant photographs with some ants from Taiwan. Seiki Yamane san collected them on a field trip to this island and provided them to antbase.net. Dear Seiki, thank you so much for these rare ants! Have a look at these species! New in December: New photographs of ants as Xmas present This month, we present high resolution photographs of ants from Taiwan as Xmas present to our users. These specimens were collected by Professor Seiki Yamane san who kindly provided some valuable ant specimens to antbase.net. Have a look at the treasures of the Seiki Yamane Collection! Enjoy your holiday season with our ant pictures! Ants in the city and nuptial flights of Crematogaster Two more AM paper went Online First in October October is a very productive month for Asian Myrmecology since two more paper just went online first. One of these papers is about the fascinating urban ant diversity discovered in Macao, while another paper presents a study on nuptial flights of Crematogaster living in Macaranga trees. Discover the ants of Macao and read about nuptial flights of acrobat ants! An Asian Myrmecology paper on polymorphism of Gesomyrmex ants goes Online First in October Gesomyrmex is a little known, but enigmatic genus of arboreal ants from the tropical rain forests of South-East Asia. Christian Peeters and his co-workers report on striking polymorphism among infertile helpers in these formicine ants. Learn more about Gesomyrmex! ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY made an important step to become awarded by the government of MalaysiaIt was just announced that ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY fulfills the recognition requirementt of the 2017 CREAM award! CREAM awards (Current Research in Malaysia) have been introduced by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, to honor academic journals which have been showcasing noticeable performance and promising growth. Such awards are also a recognition given to scientific publishers that have been maintaining quality publications, as well as executing successful strategies in continuing growing their scholarly journals. We congratulate the editors and the publishing team of ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY, as well as University Malaysia Sabah to first, but important step towards CREAM! New photographs of ants from South-East Asia In 2010, Martin Pfeiffer and Hans-Peter Katzmann travelled to the Natural History Museum in London to take high resolution photographs of some specimens of its famous ant collection. Most of these photographs were already presented on antbase.net many years ago. However, we recently discovered that some of these ant pictures have not been published yet. Therefore we present six specimen of the NHM this month. Have fun with our ant pictures! The 11th ANeT meeting will be held from 26th to 28th October 2017 at the Punjabi University Patiala, India. You may still register to attend this meeting as a participant, even if the deadline for abstract submission has already expired. You may find all relevant information regarding registration and other important data on the official conference website. We hope to see you soon at the 11th ANeT meeting in India! New photographs of Asian and European ants This month, antbase.net is not on summer holiday. Therefore we present a further selection of ant pictures from Malaysia and Germany. Our monthly selection includes impressive pictures of alates of some well known species like Lasius niger and Camponotus arrogans. We even offer a little bonus this month since we discovered some ant mites on our Lasius niger specimens. Enjoy the summer with our ant pictures! New in July: New pictures of ants from Europe and South-East Asia In July, we show a small selection of ant pictures from Greece, Germany and Malaysia. We present some species of carpenter ants including a rarely collected subspecies of Dinomyrmex, one of the largest ants of this group. This month, you may further discover two stunning major worker ants of the hyperdiverse genus Pheidole. Enjoy these ant pictures! Two more Asian Myrmecology papers go Online First in June You are interested in the extinct ant genus Enneamerus from Baltic amber? Or do you want to learn all about the endocrine system of Aneuretus simoni? Then you do not want to miss the newest publications published as Online first in Asian Myrmecology on 21st and 23rd June. Get these papers! An Asian Myrmecology paper on behavioral ecology of Myrmoteras ants goes Online First in June Myrmoteras is a little known genus of leaf litter ants from the tropical forests of Asia. Fuminori Ito and his co-workers report on colony composition and behavioral characteristics of two species living in the rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. Get this paper! Commemorating the first anniversary of Rudolf J. Kohout's death The 26th May marks the first anniversary of the death of Rudolf J. Kohout. This outstanding ant taxonomist is known for his significant work on the spiny ant genus Polyrhachis. On a special page, we want to honour and remember Rudy by presenting an obitary and exclusive pictures of spiny ants from his personal collection. Rest in peace, Rudy! The metapleural gland of Aneuretus simoni - a second Asian Myrmecology paper goes Online First in May Aneuretus simoni is an enigmatic ant species being endemic to Sri Lanka. Johan Billen from the University of Leuven studied the metapleural glands of these ants in detail and published his results on 17th May 2017 in Asian Myrmecology. Learn about Aneuretus simoni! You are interested in factors that affect colony growth of the black garden ant, Lasius niger? Then you should read the new publication of Natalia E. L. Madsen and Joachim Offenberg from Aarhus University! Read this paper! April 2017 is a very productive month for Asian Myrmecology: Two more paper went Online First! On 27th April, two short communications about ants of Singapore were published: one study deals on the ecology of Tyrannomyrmex, while the other paper provides insights to the foraging behavior of Prenolepis. And for the first time in the history of Asian Myrmecology, you can even watch some short videos of these ants videotaped by the authors of the papers! Have a look at the newest publications of Asian Myrmecology! New in April: New pictures of rare ants In many cases, male ants are a somewhat neglegted in myrmecology. Therefore we decided this month to include high resolution photographs of three male specimens to our selection of ant pictures. For two species, it is even the first time ever that a picture of a male specimen is presented online or in any publication: Acanthomyrmex concavus and Strumigenys rofocala. Enjoy these rarities! Save this date: 11th ANeT meeting in India!Update-Registration is openThe next International Conference on Ants (11th ANeT meeting) will take place from 26th to 28th October 2017 at the Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, India.Fore more information regarding registration, abstract submission and other relevant data, please visit the official conference website. We are looking forward to seeing you at the 11th ANeT meeting in India! You want to learn about ant gardens including their inhabitants in South-East Asia? Or do you want to know how to why males are important for the identification of Anochetus? Then you do not want to miss two new Asian Myrmecology manuscripts published on 5th April 2017! Read these papers! New in March: A colorful selection of new ant pictures With the beginning of spring (or fall if you live on the southern hemisphere), we present a colorful selection of six ants from three continents. Discover our selection of ant species from Malaysia, Thailand, Domimica and Canada including a paratype of a rare Crematogaster species! Have a look! A further publication of Asian Myrmecology Volume 9 was published Online First in March On 9th March, a further paper of Asian Myrmecology Volume 9 was published Online First. Kazutaka Syoji and Katuyuki Eguchi from Tokyo Metropolitan University studied nesting behaviour of two sympatric myrmecines from Japanese broad-leave forests. Don't miss this paper! International Field Course on ants in Sri LankaInterested in learning about ant taxonomy and field sampling in a tropical country in South Asia? Then you might want to attent the "International training course on field sampling methods and identification of ants" offered at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka during 08-09 April, 2017. It is even free of charge! However, the deadline for applications is approaching very fast: 15th March 2017. Apply soon! Have a look at the offical poster! For more information, please click here! Ant photographs from four continents Winter still rules the northern hemisphere. Therefore we invite you to a myrmecological journey to the warmer parts of the world with ants from Australia, Malaysia, Greece and Ivory Coast. Click here to enjoy the myrmecological beauties! The first article of Asian Myrmecology Volume 9 was published Online First in February On 14th February, the first paper of Asian Myrmecology Volume 9 was published Online First. In this publication, James K. Wetterer reviewed the geographic distribution of the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina . Have a look at this new article! New in January: Further new pictures of uncommon Crematogaster species We hope you had a great start to 2017! We continue our series of rarely collected acrobat ant species with new pictures of specimens from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philipinnes of the collection of Seiki Yamane. Happy new year! Have a look on the diversity of acrobat ants! Pictures of six rare acrobat ant species This festive season is getting acrobatic! As a christmas gift, we present to you a selection of rarely shown Crematogaster acrobat ants from Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam of the collection of Seiki Yamane. Happy holidays! Click here to enjoy the little acrobats! New in November: Launch of the new ANeT website This month, we launch a new website for ANeT, the International Network for the Study of Asian Ants. On this website, you may find comprehensive information on this scientific association ranging from the latest ANeT news, membership information to announcements of upcoming conferences. You may also immerge into the history of ANeT by browsing through the large collection of photographs of previous meetings. Learn all about ANeT! New ant pictures from Asia and Australia In October, we present some more myrmecological beauties. We show to you a selection of five specimens from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam of the collection of Seiki Yamane and one further ant species from Australia's rainforests. Check it out and enjoy! September is a very productive month for Asian Myrmecology since this journal released for the third time papers as Online First. On 22th September, an article of Bharti and co-workers was published on ants as bioindicators of ecosystem health in the Himalayas. The authors present an interesting view on species diversity and invasive species in the world's highest mountain range. Don't not miss this paper! More ant pictures from around the world We are back from our summer break, but we continue our myrmecological journey around the world. This time, we present a small selection of pictures of fascinating ants from Australia, Germany and Ivory Coast. Have a look and enjoy the diversity! Three more Asian Myrmecology articles published Online First in September On 8th September, three more Asian Myrmecology papers have been published Online First. Fuminori Ito reports on nesting and reproduction biology of Platythyrea and Jaitrong presents together with his co-workers the very first checklist of known ant species from Laos. Alonso and Robson published a book review on Ants of Africa and Madagascar, a guide to the genera by Fisher and Bolton. Have a look at these new papers! Ant pictures from around the worldJuly marks the beginning of main holiday season in the northern hemisphere. Therefore we want to invite you to a myrmecological journey around the world with a small selection of photographs of ants from all five continents. Enjoy our pictures and have a great summer vacation! You want to study ant assemblages in the rainforests of Costa Rica and the deserts of Iran, but you don't have time to travel to Central America and the Middle East? With the help of high resulation photographs hosted by antweb.org and antbase.net, this can be done without leaving your lab. Such a study was done by Sophie Schofield and co-workers at the lab of Kate Parr who compared morphometric traits of ants from two contrasting biomes from Costa Rica and the Iran. They published their paper in Myrmecological News which is soley based on data obtained by making measurements on high resolution photographs of ants obtained at image data bases like antweb.org and antbase.net. This is great example of the high value of high resulation photographs which are much more than just being stunning pictures. On July 1st, two more Asian Myrmecology articles have been published Online First. Luo and Gu nard described a new species of Paratopula from Hong Kong. Ito and coworkers studied the defense functions of Polyrhachis spines against anuran predators. Don't miss these new findings in myrmecology! New Book on Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation Formica wood ants are ecologically important species for boreal forest ecosystems of the northern hemisphere. These ants are key stone species when it comes to predation, mutualism, bioturbation and nutrient cycling. Therefore a lot of research has been done on these ants, but no comprehensive work on their ecology and conservation has been published yet. A new book closing this gap was edited by Jenni A. Stockan and Elva J. H. Robinson and written by a broad range of ant researcher being experts on all aspects of Formica ecology and conservation. They will publish soon "Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation" which will be first available on 7th July 2016. Anyone interested in Formica ants will love this book! Fore more information, click here! Higher impact factor for Asian Myrmecology Great news for Asian Myrmecology! Its impact factor has risen to 1.1 from 0.89 and rank in Entomology to 46 from 56 last year.Congratulate the whole team of Asian Myrmecology for this achievement! The first ant pictures after our restart in GermanyThis month, we present the first photographs we produced after our retun to Germany. We managed to repair our camera system and now we are keen to share with our user the very first pictures taken by the new camera. We are very grateful to Yamane san who provided some rare ant specimens from remote areas of South-East Asia to us.Click here fore these pictures! In Memory of Rudy J. Kohout With great sadness we let you know that Rudy J. Kohout passed away on 26th May 2016. To remember and honor this outstanding ant taxonomist, we created a special page for his memorial. Farewell Rudy! Field Course on ants in Sri LankaInterested in learning about ant taxonomy and field sampling in a tropical country? Then you might want to attent the "Training course on field sampling methods and identification of ants" offered at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka during 15-16 September, 2016. It is even free of charge! Instructors will be internationally well respected ant scientists like Prof. Seiki Yamane, Prof. Sriyani Dias and Dr. Himender Bharti. However, the deadline for international applicants is approaching fast: 15th June 2016. Apply soon! For more information, please click here! New Citizen Science Project: Ant Picnic Lesson Plan When you are a teacher or working in any other educational position with children or grown-ups, you might be interested in the newest citizen science project of Rob Dunn. His team wants to set up a worldwide large-scaled study on what type of foods ants prefer and needs your help!A great opportinity for children and students to feed ants, learn about nature and contribute to real science! If you have any qestions, please click here! New in May: Pictures of taxonomic works from Asian Myrmecology This month, we present some photographs of ants from the taxonomic works published in Asian Myrmecology Volume 7. Our selection includes odd genera like Simopone shown for the first time on antbase.net and species from exotic type localities like a Pristomyrmex described as a new species from the Philippine island Mindoro. And we present a Polyrhachis species named after the late Rudy J. Kohout described by Benjamin D. Hoffmann.Have a look at these rarities! Ants from Germany for Barcoding needed The German Barcode of Life (GBOL)) project at the research museum Zoologischen Staatssammlung Munich wants to complete its collection of barcodes of ants from Germany. Therefore the team of the GBOL project is looking for samples of ants from Germany preserved in 96% ethanol. Here is a list of the already barcoded species. If you can help with any not listed species, please contact Jerome Moriniere. For more information, please click here! Barcoding at the ZSM (in German language only) Asian Myrmecology goes ONLINE FIRST!This weekend, Asian Myrmecology has published its first papers as online first. And a DOI has been assigned to all papers including the ones of the back issues of this journal which allows a better citation and faster publication. Enjoy the new publications on taxonomy, morphology and ecology of Asian ants! Have a look! Identification keys for Bornean ants updated We just updated our collection of identification keys for ants from Borneo. We refreshed the links for a free download of almost any identification key and added some new taxonomic studies covering ants from this tropical island. This list may become a valuable resource for every myrmecologist studying Bornean ants. Click here! High resolution pictures of Polyrhachis from Asia and Australia Spring remains spiny! This month, we present further photographs of spiny ants from Australia and South-East-Asia. Again, all shown specimens were part of Dr. Dirk Mezger s phylogenetic study on Polyrhachis done at the Moreau Lab at the Field Museum in Chicago. Click here for these fascinating ants!Have a look at the spiny ants! An Easter present for our valued antbase user: Fascinating photographs of Polyrhachis This month is getting spiny! We present some pictures of Australian spiny ants. The evolution of Polyrhachis originated in South-East Asia, but spiny ants dispersed several times to Australia where they experienced a massive radiation with several hundreds of Polyrhachis species being found down under. Click here for a small selection! The shown specimens were part of Dr. Dirk Mezger s phylogenetic study done at the Moreau Lab at the Field Museum in Chicago. For the purpose of DNA-extraction, some legs were removed from the mounted specimens and Dirk processed their DNA according to the state of art of DNA work. For the first time on Antbase.net, you can even have a look at genes of the presented ants since we present Genbank numbers including links to the sequences. Enjoy the beauty of these great insects! So we wish all of you a peaceful and happy Easter weekend and after a short break we will be back soon with more captivating pictures. Symposium "Ants 2016" takes place in Munich This year, the symposium "Ants 2016" will be held in Munich. The leading scientists of the world studying ant interactions with fungi, microbes, other insects, and plants will gather to Munich from 5-7 May this year. The researchers will give insights to their research and discuss their newest outcomes with their colleagues. Don't miss this inspiring event! For more information, see here! New in March: Two Sphingtomyrmex species from Thailand This month we present pictures of Thai species of the enigmatic genus Sphingtomyrmex. Weeyawat Yaitrong and coworkers recently revised the species of this doryline genus from Thailand. Their work was published in the Far Eastern Entomologist. Here you may find pictures of Sphinctomyrmex furcatus and the very first photographs of the newly described S. siamensis. Have a look! Welcome to Dr. Dirk Mezger - the new project manager of www.antbase.net Since the end of February we have a new project manager for antbase.net! Dr. Dirk Mezger has joint our team and will act as team leader and photographer. At the same time we opened our new lab at the University of Bayreuth. So now we really arrived in Germany! Dr. Mezger is well known to ant researchers for his recent study on Polyrhachis phylogeny. We will soon report on this fascinating genus of the Old World tropics. Brilliant photographs of living ants Daniela Magdalena Sorger was an ecconomist, when she discovered her love for ants. She went to Mulu NP in Sarawak for her first field research and after that she worked for www.antbase.net as a photographer. This year she has finished her PhD in the lab of Rob Dunn (North Carolina State University). Now she published a website on her research (theantlife.com), which includes a photogallery with beautiul ant pictures. Have a look! After five years in Mongolia we have moved back to Germany in October. We took the TransSib train, while our equipment came by air freight. Martin got support from an old friend, Carl Beierkuhnlein, who is a professor for biogeography at the University of Bayreuth. He invited us to come to Bayreuth and to teach at his department from January 2016. So we came "back to our roots", as Martin made his Master Diploma at that university. Thank you Carl! Three species of Recurvidris from Thailand from a recent publication of Weeyawat Jaitrong and Decha Wiwatwitaya Immediately before we packed our lab for Germany our camera was broken. To present some pictures at Christmas time I asked Weeyawat Jaitrong for help. He sent us these lovely pictures from his recent publication in Indian Entomological Journal Halteres. We are really thankful for that and wish our readers all the best for Christmas holidays and a Happy, healthy and thrice blessed NEW YEAR 2016! We shall struggle to repair our equipment. But now please have a look to the new species Recurvidris chanapaithooni, which can be studied here, please click! The last ant pictures "made in Mongolia" As Martin is leaving Mongolia, he will also take the camera back to Germany. Anu, our Mongolian photographer has taken the chance to show what she has learned in the recent time. Here she presents excellent pictures of 17 ant species. The specimens have been donated and lend by Prof. Seiki Yamane, our Japanese counterpart, who is a exceptionally gifted ant researcher with a very large personal ant collection. We say thank you to both of them! Good luck Anu for your next job & private life!! In the next days our ant lab will move back to Germany after 5 years of stay in Mongolia. We hope to continue from there very soon. But now, please have a look to the photographs, including the typespecimen of Myrmica yamanei, please click! New issue of Asian Myrmecology In mid of holidays Asian Myrmecology has published its new issue with 18 most interesting papers on taxonomy, distribution and behavior of Asian ants. Check it out! ANTMAPS - a new online tool to visualize ant diversity and ant distribution Benoit Gu nard, University of Hong Kong, and Evan Economo, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, announce the release of AntMaps.org, a new online tool developed by Evan Economo, Julia Janicki, Benoit Guenard, Nitish Narula, and Matt Ziegler, to visualize ant diversity and distributions based on the Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) database. GABI is a compilation of currently 1.6 million records of ant species occurrence records from nearly 8500 publications and numerous museum and specimen databases. We hearty congratulate to this effort that should also be a tool to identify erroneous or suspicious ant records. So if you are a specialist for a certain group, please check your favorite species! There are several visualization tools implemented in AntMaps, 1) the Diversity View: the visualization of species richness patterns for any subfamily or genus, with clickable species list for each area , 2) the Species Range Map: you can view a range map for all 15,000 species and subspecies, with clickable access to underlying records behind the occurrence of a species in an area, 3) the Region Comparison: you can compare the overlap of species between any two regions, or map the geographic spread of species that occur in a given region. Higher impact for Asian Myrmecology Good News for Ant Researchers: ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY enhances its Impact Factor to 0.889, rank 54 in Entomology! 5-years-IF is even 0.912. A Guide to the Ants of Sabangau (Indonesia, Kalimantan) Indonesia has the largest extent of tropical peatlands in the world, mostly in Borneo, Sumatra and Irian Jaya, covering 20.7 million hectares and storing 65% of all tropical peat carbon. The peat-swamp forest in the Sabangau catchment, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, comprises the largest remaining continuous lowland forest in Borneo, and supports the world's largest populations of Bornean orangutan. The ant fauna of Kalimantan is largely unknown. Field ecologist Stijn Schreven, from OuTrop, Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, has now made a major attempt to shed some light on ant diversity of that area. In collaboration with a team of local ant researchers, with antweb.org and AntBase.Net he developed a A Guide to the Ants of Sabangau in order to ease identification of Kalimantan ants and to foster future studies on them! If you like to check out this beautiful book, download it here (36 MB, 128 pages). More information on the whole project can be obtained at their webpage.. 19 Polyrhachis species from Borneo! Here are the original photographs of Rudy Kohout's review of the subgenus Polyrhachis, which has been published in the recent issue of Asian Myrmecology, including ten previously described species and new one P. maliau. But please have a look.... Eight more species in December These rarities from South East Asia and China have been collected and partly described by Prof. Yamane in the recent years. Most of that species have been given to our collection as a gift. We say thank you very much, dear Professor! We hope that you have much luck with further ant collections! Have a look to these beautiful photographs.... After all Khisghee decided to quit her work with us in order to better care for her baby - and Master Thesis. We thankfully ackowlegde her brilliant work and all the beautiful pictures she took for us. But now Lights, Music, Curtain... for our new photographer Anu Nasanbat! She has choosen mainly Dolichoderus species for her first pictures at www.antbase.net.. Quality is fine! Have a look, please.... We are back again: 17 new species from the collection of Prof. Yamane Our baby break is over and we are pround to present brand new photographs of 17 species of Aenictus photographed by Khishigdelger. Have a look to these unique pictures! 2014 will be the year of a series of changes in ant taxonomy. Phil Ward has written a review on the recent advances in our understanding of ant evolutionary history, which have been propelled by the use of molecular phylogenetic methods. At the same time, together with Sean Brady, Brian Fisher and Ted Schulz, he published a comprehensive study on the evolution of myrmicine ants. Chris Schmidt and Steve Shattuck worked out a 242-pages paper on the higher classification of the ponerinae, while Brady et al. published on phylogeny of the doryline ants. Now Formicinae are still missing, although Chen et al. made an approach last year for the Chinese formicine ants. The outcome of these studies are hundreds of name changes that had been listed by Steve on an antwiki page: have a look on this list! www.antbase.net will have some difficulties to put all these changes to its databank in the near future. Being on the web for 10 years now we urgently need to transfer all our data to a new server. We are struggeling...to keep pace with the current proceedings in myrmecology. A new ant researcher was born! Our photographer Khishigdelger has given birth to a baby in the last week of May. Mother and baby are fine and we expect that around September antbase.net will come back to normal work again. So please come back to us later! Type specimens from the collection of Prof. Seiki Yamane The new year starts with an interesting contribution from Japan. Prof. Dr. Seiki Yamane, Asia's most famous ant researcher, has opened his legendary collection for us, which is the result of dilligent ant sampling for decades. Numerous students and coworkers profited from his ant enthusiasm and several times www.antbase.net was in the lucky position to show some of his thoroughly prepared specimens. In January we showed already a collection of species sampled from South East Asia, in February we present a special on Aenictus, a blind, mass raiding genus inhibitating the rainforest floor. Many of these are type specimens! Check it out! A hardly known genus of myrmecophilous crickets The family Myrmecophilidae, the ant loving crickets, comprise five genera, one of it is Camponophilus, with its single member C. irmi - an ant cricket living symbiotically with Camponotus gigas, the Giant Forest Ant. Here we provide automontage pictures of this rare and hardly known species. Check for details! Beauties from the Iranian deserts: 15 species from Omid Paknia's collection - Thank you! In June we present ant specimens from Iran collected by Omid Paknia during his PhD work. Our photograph Khishigdelger made the pictures of these amazing species: have a look, please! April-May 2013: Courtesy of Himender Bharti: 27 newly described species from India - the secrets of the Himalayas Dr. Bharti and his students are among the most productive ant taxonomists at present. The Indian subcontinent harbours an amazing variety of species new to sciences. Here we present pictures provided by Bharti's team: Have a click! Thank's for this fine cooperation! NEW in March 2013: 14 species most of them new to sciences The new issue of ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY came up with twelve newly described species. Here we present the original pictures of 14 species that are shown in that volume. Have a closer look to the new species! NEW in March 2013: Three more specimens from Ulykpan Aibek's collection! In March 2013 we are presenting three more specimens from Mongolia, from Ulykpan Aibek's collections. Let's see! More specimens from Ulykpan Aibek's collection! In January 2013 we present more species from Mongolia, from the collection of Ulykpan Aibek. Have a look to our pictures! The first specimens from Ulykpan Aibek's collection! The ants of Mongolia are our special mission! In cooperation with Aibek U. we proudly present 10 ant species from Mongolia, including such interesting species as Polyergus nigerrimus. The pictures have been taken bei our photographer Khishgee as usual. We are aiming at renewing all pictures from Mongolian ant species, so there will be more pictures coming soon! Have a look to Aibek's collection. NEW in September and October 2012: The first Aenictus specimens from Thailand We have set up a cooperation with Dr WEEYAWAT JAITRONG, who is the Asian specialist for Aenictus. Find here the first pictures of some two specimens from Thailand. More pictures of these species will be here available soon. See Zootaxa (only Abstract!) for Dr Weeyawat's latest work. And here to our pictures for September and October! NEW in August 2012: Specimens from Borneo Summer holidays almost everywhere, and also in our lab. We have been on expedition to Southern Siberia, therefore our July presentation is skipped. Here are some pictures from Bornean ant species for August. Martin is currently working on some Borneo ant papers, so we had a look to our collection and found some interesting specimens there. Let's see... NEW in June 2012: More ant species from India! In June we present more species from India, from Himender Bharti's collections. Our gallery shows the amazing diversity of the ants from the Himalaya! NEW in May 2012: Ants from India! This month we presents ants from India, from Himender Bharti' collections. These are ants from the Himalaya and we are proud to present them on the Web. Have a look to our pictures! NEW: Made in Mongolia: The first ant pictures from our lab in Ulaanbaatar: 16 species from China! After a long period of preparation, we proudly present here the first outcome of our efforts: 16 ant species from the collection of John R. Fellowes, editor of ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY, who sampled the specimens from different regions of China. The pics have been prepared on our well-proven Leica Z6 Apo A that we brought from Ulm. Little change to before: instead of senior photographer Hans Peter Katzmann our new staff Khishigdelger Enkhtur, now chief photographer and project manager,mounted the specimens and took the pics. Congrats to your work, and welcome at www.antbase.net! Ants from the Peoples Republic of China are still rare in Internet collections, so we are happy that we can unravel some of these hidden secrets . Take a look to what John R. Fellowes had collected some years ago and visit our Ants of China! More species are about to come. NEW in March and April 2012: More ants from China! These months we prepared even more ants from China, from John Fellowes' collections. Some of these ants had been photographed in India, by Himender Bharti, as a part of our cooperation in ANeT. Others come form our lab in Ulaanbaatar, photographed by Khishigdelger. Have a look to our collection! Two novelties for Bornean ants: A new Key to the Bornean Ant Genera and a comprehensive List of the Ants of Borneo At the end of the year we come up with two new tools that should ease the identification of Bornean ant species. Tom Fayle provides an updated and translated Key to the Ant Genera of Borneo in English and Malay [PDF], based on the keys of Yoshiaki Hashimoto (website). Plus a Glossary of Morphological Terms [PDF], also in Malay and English. The new key includes the latest taxonomic developments, but note that key and glossary are only draft versions. If you have any feedback please The Ants of Iran Iran is a vast country with a total area of 1.6 million square kilometers, which is located in the mid-latitude band of arid and semi-arid regions of the Old World, in Southwest Asia. Biogeographically southwest Asia represents a transition zone between three regions: Palaearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental. Iran s borders at the south and east are near to the Afrotropical and Oriental regions, respectively. Although arid and semi-arid areas cover more than half of the country, Iran also includes high mountains with alpine areas, broadleaf forest in the southern coastal plains of the Caspian forests, and steppe forests in the north and west. The Iranian ant fauna has been poorly investigated. So far 142 species belonging to 32 genera have been recorded from Iran (Paknia et al. 2008, Paknia et al. 2010), which is still far from the real number. Have a look at the marvels of the Iranian desert... The Ants of Central Europe Dr. Bernhard Seifert of the "Senckenberg Museum f r Naturkunde G rlitz" is one of the best known German ant researchers. After having published the most important ant species of Germany from his famous book: "Ameisen: beobachten, bestimmen", we continue our collaboration with a new section on the Ants of Central Europe. This new part of our website is a teamwork between www.antbase.net, Dr. Seifert and the Natural History Museum Vienna, where Daniela Magdalena Sorger took the pictures of these beautiful ants. Have a look... The Ants of Southeast Asia This website is dedicated to the ants of Poring, Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Malaysia, a tropical rainforest with the world's highest ant diversity: 650 species of ants from 81 genera and 8 subfamilies of the Formicidae have been found there. In our virtual museum of natural history you find pictures of Aenictinae, Cerapachyinae, Dorylinae, Dolichoderinae, Formicinae, Myrmicinae, Ponerinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae. Have a look... Ants of Germany Dr. Bernhard Seifert of the Staatliches Museum f r Naturkunde G rlitz is one of the best known German ant researchers. In Antbase.net he shows pictures of the most important ant species of Germany from this famous book: Ameisen: beobachten, bestimmen (Naturbuchverlag).GO! Ants of Mongolia Mongolian ants are hardly studied. Here we present the most important species. These ants live in the deserts and steppes of Central Asia. GO! 2003-2017. Martin Pfeiffer. University of Bayreuth. Designed and maintained by Martin Pfeiffer

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