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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 . Of course you may access the new key at any time from our website.

A group of ANeT researchers headed by Martin Pfeiffer have come together to provide a species list to the Ants of Borneo, which has been recently published in the forth volume of ASIAN MYRMECOLOGY. We do not only provide a link to the pdf, but based on the original paper we have established a website that allows direct access to all the species listed in the paper and stored in our data base. Welcome to the Ants of Borneo Webpage!

 

 

 

New: AntBase.Net has moved to Mongolia

Some of you may have been wondering why our website was a little bit delayed with its updates. NOW it is time to reveal one of the reasons: the editorial office of AntBase.Net has been moved from Ulm to the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar, where Martin Pfeiffer has become a Professor in the Department of Ecology. With this moving connected there are a series of changes: DFG funding has timed out and Hans Peter Katzmann has become a free-lancer, working for AntBase.Net only from time to time. However, AntBase.Net will stay connected to SYSTAX, so our database will still be run from the University of Ulm. But all organization of the site will be done by now in our UB office and we are looking for a new photographer. This may take a while, so our monthly updates may be still delayed for some more weeks. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but hope to serve you soon with full power again.


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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 für Naturkunde Görlitz" 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: 642 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 für Naturkunde Görlitz" 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).
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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.
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