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 May of 2012, AntWeb has 77510 ant images, of 18508 specimens representing over 8304 species. AntWeb provides tools for submitting images, specimen records, annotating species pages, and managing regional species lists. More...

Recent Description Edits

Species: Strumigenys ludia
Species: Tapinoma subtile
Species: Ponera bp01
Species: Adelomyrmex bp02
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Aphaenogaster pythia
Species: Aphaenogaster texana
Species: Aphaenogaster longiceps
Species: Aphaenogaster treatae
Species: Aphaenogaster miamiana
Species: Aphaenogaster carolinensis

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

323910 specimens
14892 extant valid taxa
78774 total specimen images
18810 specimens imaged
8342 species imaged