Ants of the World
Every ant tells a story. AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
These tools have been developed to encourage the study of ants, to facilitate the use of ants in inventory and monitoring programs, and to provide ant taxonomists with access to images of type specimens.
Currently AntWeb contains information on the ant faunas of several areas in the Nearctic and Malagasy biogeographic regions, and global coverage of all ant genera.
Antweb is funded from private donations and from grants from the National Science Foundation, DEB-0344731 and EF-0431330.
Bay Area Ants Survey
The 11-county Bay Area is home to more 100 distinct types of ant species. Visit AntWeb's Bay Area Ant Survey to find out how to become a Citizen Naturalist and help discover and document the native and invasive ants in the Bay Area. Learn about the ants in your backyard, schools and local Bay Area parks.Enroll in Ant Course
Ant Course is a workshop designed primarily for systematists, ecologists, behaviorists ... Read More »
ANTWEB IN GOOGLE EARTH
Users of Google Earth can now plot all the ants known to AntWeb on a 3-dimensional interactive globe of satellite images. Learn more about putting AntWeb on Google Earth.
CONTRIBUTE TO ANTWEB
Many curators already contribute to AntWeb - would you like to join us? Curators can edit the home page of the geographic section they curate, upload specimen data and authority files, and control a number of other aspects of their project. If you would like to join us, contact us at - antweb@calacademy.org.
WORLD ANTS COLLECTIONS
We at AntWeb have been busy taking photos of many of the world's great ant collections. Visit the Antweb World Ant Collection to see the collections and get information about where they are housed.
RECENT IMAGES
casent0178446: Discothyrea clavicornis_cf
casent0178449: Ponera clavicornis
casent0178444: Pristomyrmex quadridens
casent0178447: Rogeria stigmatica
casent0133645: Monomorium hildebrandti
casent0132542: Monomorium termitobium
casent0132440: Monomorium latinode
casent0133365: Pachycondyla ambigua
casent0133331: Tetramorium delagoense
casent0132647: Platythyrea arthuri
more...
casent0178449: Ponera clavicornis
casent0178444: Pristomyrmex quadridens
casent0178447: Rogeria stigmatica
casent0133645: Monomorium hildebrandti
casent0132542: Monomorium termitobium
casent0132440: Monomorium latinode
casent0133365: Pachycondyla ambigua
casent0133331: Tetramorium delagoense
casent0132647: Platythyrea arthuri
more...
CURRENT STATISTICS
number of extant vaild taxa: 13953number of types imaged: 686
number of species imaged: 3878
number of specimens: 149845
number of specimens imaged: 8712
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