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NEW in April 2008:

This month we present the last pictures from the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Take a look ...

NEW in March 2008:

This month we have further pictures from asian ants from the Zoologische Staatssammlung München.
In cooperation with Rudolf Kohout we present pictures of his newest descriptions of Polyrhachis-species from Borneo. The original species-descriptions can be read in Asian Myrmecology
In cooperation with Andreas Freytag we are able to show some interesting pictures of a collective nest-formation of two Oecophylla cf smaragdina queens in Borneo.
We are also able to show new movies about a ritual fight of Camponotus gigas workers, with kind permission of Carsten Brühl.
Enjoy our newest pictures!

 

NEW in February 2008:

This month we present further pictures from the collection of the ZSM, some old pictures taken at the SMNK in Karlsruhe and new pictures from our own AntBase collection.
Furthermore we have new interesting videos about ants and Dirk Mezger's contribution to the annual meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology (GTÖ) in our poster exhibition!
Have a look!

 

NEW in January 2008:

More interesting pictures from the collection of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München

We have launched our new section with homepages of Ant Researchers working in Asia - have a look and join the database!

 

NEW in November 2007:

New pictures of asian ants from the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart

 

NEW in October 2007:

Amazing new pictures from Herbert Zettel, Natural History Museum Vienna, of ants of the genus Forelophilus from the Philippines, including two newly described species.

 

NEW in September 2007:

The first new pictures of ants from the collection of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, mostly from Borneo and Thailand!

 

NEW in June 2007:

More new pictures of ants from the collection of the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, from Danum Valley and the Gunung-Mulu National Park (Borneo)

 

NEW in May 2007:

New ant-pictures from Danum Valley and the Gunung-Mulu National Park (Borneo)

 

NEW in February 2007:

More Ant-pictures from the collection of the Staatliche Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe

 

NEW in January 2007:

Ant-pictures from the collection of the Staatliche Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe

 

NEW in May 2006:

Work for the ant taxonomists: four unknown Technomyrmex species

 

NEW in April 2006:

New: Specimen key of Dorylus by Yoshiaki Hashimoto

 

NEW in March 2006:

New article on the ecology of ants: Trophobioses between ants and hemipterans by Dirk Mezger

 

NEW in February 2006:

Subgenus key of Polyrhachis by Yoshiaki Hashimoto

 

NEW in December 2005:

"Important Characters for Sorting and Identifying Indo-Malayan Pheidole Species" by Katsuyuki Eguchi

 

NEW in November 2005:

10 new ant species of Mongolia from the collection of Roland Schultz, University of Greifswald

 

NEW in October 2005:

Cladomyrma special: 10 new automontage pictures by courtesy of Achim Moog

Links to five ant identification keys for different Bornean subfamilies and a glossary of ant morphology from Prof. Yoshiaki Hashimotos Ants of Borneo site.

 

NEW in August 2005:

Interactive identification tool - now also in english

 

NEW in July 2005:

Ants of the Natural History Museum Vienna: 27 new automontage pictures

 

NEW in May 2005:

updated species list of Poring now 640 species of ants, 4 Meranoplus species identified

 

NEW in April 2005:

Basic biology and ecology of ants by Noel B. Tawatao

 

NEW in March 2005:

Ants of the Malaysian oil palm plantations (automontage pictures).
The "Villa" Library of Asian Ant Research: A pdf collection of ant papers.
Ecological report: "Peeing ants save their nests" by Achim Moog.

 

NEW in November 2004:

antbase.de in Malay!!
Yvonne Basusie and Noel B. Tawatao,of the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation Universiti Malaysia Sabah have translated antbase.de into the Malay language ! It's amazing!

 

NEW in August 2004:

Relaunch of antbase.de
Gero Lueckemeyer of the Department of Informatics of the University of Koeln improved our website to the newest web standards. Since August 2004 antbase.de is written in CSS and XHTML 1.0, allowing a free access for most web users, including disabled people that have to use features like reading devices and those that use handhelds, mobiles and other non standard equipment.

A German version of antbase.de
During the relaunch of antbase.de we decided to edit a German version of our pages, as most hits in our webstatistics still come from Germany. We hope that this will enlarge the number of ant enthusiasts and will be a help for those who are interested in the high ant diversity of the Malaysian rainforests. For the next future we are planning a Malaysian version of antbase.de.

 

NEW in June 2004:

5 "automontage" specimens - perfectly focused pictures
updated species list (PDF)
Myrmecochory in Bornean ginger species (by Martin Pfeiffer)

 

NEW in May 2004:

Fogging as a method to collect arboreal ants (by Andreas Floren)

 

NEW in April 2004:

Camponotus gigas an antbase special about the largest ant of the world
2 more Pheidole species

 

NEW in March 2004:

15 Pheidole species

 

NEW in February 2004:

40 (mostly) "leaf litter" ant species
links to systematic information on each species from antbase.org
Forum (more about wrong identifications)

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.de offers beautiful ant pictures for every interesting reader.