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A virtual museum of ants (Formicidae) of Malaysia, Mongolia and Germany. 423 ant species (77 genera) are shown in high resolution pictures, 16 posters on Asian ants are currently in our poster exhibition, and we have many more interesting information on ants.
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- The Villa library of Asian Ant Research (101 pdfs)
- Interactive identification tutor
- Permanent poster-exhibition
- Movies about ants
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- Call for contributions
- AntBase.net species list
- SysTax Taxon-Browser
- Conditions of use
- Ant glossary
- Contact the editor
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Ants of Southeast Asia:
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- Aenictinae
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- Cerapachyinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
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- Formicinae
- Myrmicinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
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Ants of Germany:
More resources:
- AntBase-poster
- Download the antbase banner
- Antlinks
- About this site/credits
- NEW: Some Background Information
- Impressum
- Contact the webmaster
Dear Reader
Welcome to the kingdom of ants! These pages present an overview on the biodiversity of one of the most important insects groups. Primarily developed for the use by scientists antbase.net offers beautiful ant pictures for every interested reader.
Webmasters please give us links!
NEW: On A Trail With Ants...
A new fascinating book on the Ants of India has been released by Ajay Narendra and Sunil Kumar M!
Have a look at it at the "Ant Visions"-Blog, where you can also order a copy.
To this occcasion, Ajay has updated the Ant Gallery on his website as well and shows new amazing macro photography pictures of ants in the field. Have a look at it and subscribe to the RSS-feeds he set up.
Read the review of "On a trail with Ants"!
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).
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!
last update: 09.05.2008
© 2003-2008. Martin Pfeiffer. University of Ulm.
Designed and maintained by Martin Pfeiffer, Department of Experimental Ecology
Newest links on antbase.net:
- The last pictures of ants from the ZSM are available this month! Take a look...
- Watch amazing videos of Odontomachus propelling itself through the air with its mandibles!
- Further pictures from the ZSM and new Polyrhachis species from R. Kohout
- A collective nest formation of two Oecophylla quens
- Watch our newest videos about C. gigas from Carsten Brühl!
- More pictures from the ZSM, from Karlsruhe and our own AntBase collection!
- New pictures of asian Ants from the Natural History Museum Stuttgart
- Trophobioses between ants and hemipterans by Dirk Mezger
New events:
- Pre-Registration for the Middle East Biodiversity Symposium has started!
- Homage to E. O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions
- Systax Newsletter Nr.31: www.antbase.net (in German)
- The first Issue of Asian Myrmecology is available now! Have a look!
- Download our new poster of Antbase.net
- Bolton Catalogue of the Ants of the World now available on CD
- Leaf litter ants manual (ALL protocol) now available free at antbase.org