The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ants:

Contents

• Essence of ants
• Biological classification
• Kinds of ants
• Subfamilies
• General myrmecology concepts
• Myrmecologists
• External links

Ants – social insects with geniculate (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.

Essence of ants

• Ant colony
• Myrmecology – scientific study of ants

Kinds of ants

Ant

• List of ant genera
• List of ants of Great Britain

General myrmecology concepts

• Ant colony optimization algorithms
• Ant mill

Myrmecologists

• Murray S. Blum (1929–2015)
• Barry Bolton
• Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951)
• Auguste Forel (1848–1931)
• William Gould (1715–1799)
• Bert Hölldobler (born 1936)
• Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872)
• Sir John Lubbock (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 (1929–2021)

External links