Ants of the World

AntWeb is the world's largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants. It is community driven and open to contribution from anyone with specimen records, natural history comments, or images.

Our mission is to publish for the scientific community high quality images of all the world's ant species. As of March 2013, AntWeb has over 100,000 ant images, of over 25,000 specimens representing over 10,549 species. AntWeb provides tools for submitting images, specimen records, annotating species pages, and managing regional species lists. More...

Recent Description Edits

Species: Stenamma picopicucha
Species: Stenamma connectum
Species: Stenamma zelum
Species: Stenamma vexator
Species: Stenamma tico
Species: Stenamma tiburon
Species: Stenamma stictosomum
Species: Stenamma schmidti
Species: Stenamma sandinista
Species: Stenamma saenzae
Species: Stenamma pelophilum

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You can now view all the ants known to AntWeb, plotted onto a 3-dimensional interactive globe of satellite images using the Google Earth plug-in!

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.

Get Involved!

Enroll in Ant Course
Ant Course is a workshop designed primarily for systematists, ecologists, behaviorists, conservation biologists, and other biologists whose research responsibilities require a greater understanding of ant taxonomy and field research techniques. Emphasis is on the evolution, classification and identification of ant genera. Read More »

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.

Featured Curators

Phil Ward
University of California, Davis

Lloyd Davis
Florida Ant Mafia

James Trager
Missouri Botanical Garden

Jack Longino
University of Utah

Meet the rest of the team!

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. Learn how to submit data to Antweb.

If you would like to join us, contact us at - antweb@calacademy.org.

AntWeb Statistics

15643 valid species + subspecies
23774 total species + subspecies

358349 specimens

11776 species imaged
26329 specimens imaged
110702 total specimen images