NEW in February 2012:
Some month after antbase.net has moved to Mongolia, we present for the first time again new photographs of ants to our readers! Our new photographer Khishigdelger has prepared a set of species sampled by John Fellowes some years ago from China. Enjoy the first pictures to our Ants of China!
NEW in April 2010:
This month we present the last pictures from our visit at the Natural History Museum in London. We had a lot of fun at the Museum and would like to thank everyone at the Museum and at SYNTHESYS for making our visit possible and such a productive time. Thanks again to everyone!
In the course of the rebuild of our website we are trying to replace all pictures of specimens on our website with Automontage pictures. Here are the first few pictures, mostly Aenictine, Amblyoponinae and Cerapachyinae. Enjoy the pictures!
Weeyawat Jaitrong has described a new species of Lasiomyrma. See the pictures of Lasiomyrma wiwatwitayai.
NEW in March 2010:
More pictures from Vienna - Magdalena Sorger provided us with some more pictures from the Natural History Museum in Vienna. This month the pictures mainly concentrate on the genus Strumigenys, but there are also pictures of newly described species from Magdalena and Herbert Zettel, Polyrhachis baca and Vombisidris philippina. Be sure not to miss our newest pictures!
The Antbase.net Team has been to the British Natural History Museum in London! In March we continue our series of pictures with ants from the British Natural History Museum in London. Have a look at some interesting species like Ishakidris ascitaspis or Gesomyrmex kalshoveni, or just enjoy the next extension of our virtual collection!
NEW in February 2010:
The Antbase.net Team has been to the British Natural History Museum in London!
We were one of the teams of lucky researchers that had been granted access to the collections at the Natural History Museum in London through the SYNTHESYS Project. So we spent 5 days of hard work at the Museum and we managed to get pictures of 66 specimens from 65 species. Obviously we tried to get some really exciting species from some rare genera out of "Barry Bolton´s collection". In order to keep a steady flow of output we will present several subsets of this work, so be prepared to see pictures of some most interesting species over the next few weeks. Link
Of course we are happy being able to present the following statement as well:
"This research received support from the SYNTHESYS Project http://www.synthesys.info/ which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 Integrating Activities Programme."
NEW in January 2010:
New Myrmicine pictures from the genus Strumigenys, determined by Barry Bolton and photographed by Daniela Magdalena Sorger at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Enjoy the first pictures of the Year!
We continue with more pictures from Vienna, this time the genera Polyrhachis and Tetramorium. Enjoy the pictures!
NEW in December 2009:
This month we can show new interesting pictures from the genus Pheidole. The Ants are from the collection of Katsuyuki Eguchi. Furthermore we have an interesting new species from the genus Polyrhachis, the newly described Polyrhachis pirata by Daniela Magdalena Sorger and Herbert Zettel from the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Have a look...
NEW in November 2009:
This month we have further pictures from Prof. Seiki Yamanes Collection. This time the genus Technomyrmex is on display! Since we are working on a slight redesign of our website we can only show some pictures, unfortunately. But Christmas is coming with some nice presents from us, so please keep patient.
NEW in October 2009:
After finishing the genus Crematogaster we continue with pictures from the collection of Prof. Seiki Yamane by starting our series of pictures from the genus Camponotus. Have a look!
We insert some pictures from the genus Acanthomyrmex to start and finish this group in one strike.
NEW in September 2009:
The last pictures of the genus Crematogaster from the collection of Seiki Yamane. More pictures from further genera will be added soon!
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.
NEW in August 2009:
New picturs from the collection of Seiki Yamane, several Crematogaster, two Anochetus and one Amblyopone species. Prepare for more still to come!
We are very proud to present you the pictures from John LaPolla's recently published identification key to the genus Euprenolepis. He kindly gave us permission to present his pictures on our website. So enjoy the pictures!
NEW in June 2009:
This month we have pictures of specimems of the genera Acropyga and Aenictus from the collection of Prof. Seiki Yamane and new Pheidole-pictures from the NHMW. Have a look!
Ants as friends: Dr Paul Van Mele, technology transfer specialist at WARDA, and Dr Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc, an entomologist at the Cantho University, have written a book that provides practical tips to make optimal use of the beneficial weaver ants. www.antbase.net serves as a download mirror for the book, which is available in three different languages. Read the whole article and download the book!
Ants as food: Weaver Ants can be beneficial in several ways: except from serving as a natural remedy against pest insects, they can provide a useful protein resource. Read a paper on the use of Weaver Ants as food source on Asian Myrmecology.
NEW in May 2009:
This month we have further pictures from the Natural History Museum in Vienna (NHMW), taken by Magdalena Sorger. Additionally, we show some nice species from our own collection. Enjoy the pictures!
NEW in April 2009:
A call for specimens from Michael Branstetter, University of California, Davis:
Fresh specimens of Stenamma pingorum (formerly S. orientale) Dubois 2000 needed for molecular work. Read more...
We have two new taxonomic identification key in our collection, one about the subgenus Physocrema of the genus Crematogaster, and one about the Cerapachys sexspinus group. Identification Key Collection
This month we present pictures from the Natural History Museum in Vienna (NHMW). This is a new coperation between the NHMW and www.antbase.net, and the pictures were taken by Magdalena Sorger of the NHMW. Enjoy the pictures!
NEW in March 2009:
Read an interview with Dr. Jürgen Hoppe, co-founder and head of SysTax, Data provider for GBIF and our own website, www.antbase.net. Here is the text of the interview...
We have a brand new taxonomic identification key in our collection, a key from John LaPolla on the genus Euprenolepis. Identification Key Collection
This month we present pictures from some rare genera we found in our collection. Enjoy the pictures!
NEW in February 2009:
This month we expand our Automontage collection fo Myrmecine ants with Strumigenys species collected by Dirk Mezger. Have a look!
NEW in January 2009:
This month we are happy to show you pictures of Eurhopalothrix-types from Steve Shattuck, including a "Golden Ant" from a SEM session. Enjoy the pictures!
NEW in November 2008:
In a co-operation with Roland Schultz and the State Museum for Natural History in Görlitz we present new Formica species from the Palearctic.
NEW in October 2008:
Besides further improving our new Navigation we are able to present some new Gnamptogenys species. Enjoy!
NEW in September 2008:
Besides working on the new Navigation and extensive work on the new issue of Asian Myrmecology we have new Mayriella species for you.
NEW in August 2008:
Before leaving for summer vacation we present some new species on Antbase.net. Enjoy them!
NEW in July 2008:
This month we present new Automontage pictures of some of our Pheidole species from Borneo. Enjoy them!
We have just updated our Section with taxonomic identification keys for Bornean ants. Dirk Mezger went into his archives and gathered all relevant taxonomic literature for Bornean ants. Furthermore Prof. Hashimoto of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah presents his keys to the Bornean subfamilies. You can also download the refernces of the keys as an EndNote file and send us further keys if you want. Have a look at our collection of keys
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NEW in June 2008:
We are proud to present to you some newly determined Myrmicaria species, with the kind help of Mr. Bakhtiar Effendi Yahya
Furthermore we continue completing our own collection and present further Myrmicinae species.
NEW in May 2008:
After finishing the collection of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, we continue with new material from the Gunung Mulu National Park, collected by Dirk Mezger. Have a look...
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
Attic (more about wrong identifications)
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