ANTBASE

This month, we present the first photographs we produced after our retun to Germany. We managed to repair our camera system and now we are keen to share with our user the very first pictures taken by the new camera... The Japanese ant specialists Seiki Yamane and Shingo Hosoishi recently published a paper "Identification of the Japanese species of the ant genus Pheidole based on queen characters" in the Japanese Journal of Entomology. This project aims to supply such kind of keys for most of the Japanese genera to help biodiversity researchers in Japan, so the language used is Japanese. However, in Appendix 2 an English translation of the key is provided. As a scientific service for readers of AntBase.Net we provide the original high-quality pictures taken by Shingo Hosoishi. Please have a look! We thank the authors and the Japanese Journal of Entomology for permission to present this unique contribution... A virtual museum of ants (Formicidae) mostly from Asia and Europe. 1151..

Primary location: Kota Kinabalu Malaysia