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Taxon search Help Author search Help 2007-09-13 Home | Databases | Projects | SISG | AntLinks | About Welcome to Antbase now provides for the first time access to all the ant species of the world, one of the ecologically most important groups of animals worldwide. Antbase is a collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aiming at providing the best possible access to the wealth of information on ants, to fulfill the conservation needs of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), and the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Antbase, together with the Hymenoptera On-line Database, is the data provider for ants to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, ITIS. Antbase is being built and maintained at the American Museum of Natural History ( Donat Agosti ) and the Ohio State University ( Norman F. Johnson ). To cite antbase itself, use: Agosti, D., and N. F. Johnson. Editors. 2005. Antbase. World Wide Web electronic publication. , version (05/2005) . To give due credit to the original authors, please cite data taken from antbase by the author and citation of the respective record. How many ants (Formicidae) are there? Actual list of the ants of the world Descriptions of the ants of the world New-Taxa Notification Page: 2009 antbase Blog NEWS 1.1.2010 - 59,785 ant names in the Hymenoptera Name Server 13.IX.2009 - Plazi.org feeds taxonomic treatments into the Encyclopedia of Life 27.II.2008 - Plazi.org, the repository for taxonomic treatments launched News Archive Home | About | Contact Us ©1995-2008 American Museum of Natural History. Designed and maintained by Donat Agosti & Roberto Keller This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License . -- --...