Outline of ants
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ants:
Ants – social insects with elbowed antennae and a distinctive node-like structure that forms a slender waist. Ants are of the family Formicidae and evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago, diversifying after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 out of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.
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Essence of ants
- Ant colony
- Myrmecology – scientific study of ants
Biological classification
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Suborder: Apocrita
- Superfamily: Vespoidea
- Family: Formicidae (family authority: Latreille, 1809)
Kinds of ants
Subfamilies
- Extant subfamilies
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- Formicinae
- Heteroponerinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- Fossil subfamilies
- †Armaniinae (sometimes treated as the family Armaniidae within the superfamily Formicoidea)
- †Brownimeciinae
- †Formiciinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
History of ants
General myrmecology concepts
Myrmecologists
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- Murray S. Blum (1929- )
- Barry Bolton
- Horace Donisthorpe (1870 - 1951)
- Auguste Forel (1848 - 1931)
- William Gould (1715 – 1799)
- Bert Hölldobler (1936 - )
- Thomas C. Jerdon (1811 - 1872)
- Sir John Lubbock (the 1st Lord and Baron Avebury) (1834–1913)
- Derek Wragge Morley (1920 - 1969)
- Frederick Smith (1805 - 1879)
- John Obadiah Westwood (1805 - 1893)
- William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937)
- E.O. Wilson (1929 -)
