The Ants of the New World

William and Emma Mackay,
Centennial Museum, Laboratory for Environmental Biology,
The University of Texas, El Paso, TX 79968

The Laboratory for Environmental Biology (LEB) is part of the research division of the Centennial Museum, concentrating primarily on research into the natural history of the Greater El Paso Region.

This website contains keys to the genera and species of New World ants. The keys are based on the literature, which have been updated to include recently described species, as well as on unpublished keys. Many of the keys are preliminary drafts, and may contain errors. All keys are subject to updates as more material becomes available. Keys are presented in MS Word format, and can be opened by double-clicking on the genus name. This should open your wordprocessor, which will allow you to print the key, together with the illustrations. Links in red are more or less ready to be used, those in brown are not yet available.

Please let us know if you have problems downloading large files and we will send you a CD with the files. We would greatly appreciate any suggestions, additions or corrections. You can email us at wmackay@utep.edu

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:

The revision of World species of the genus Liometopum by Del Toro et al., 2009 is available (February, 2009)

A key to the New World species of the maculatus group of the genus Camponotus with the description of a new species from Paraguay by Mackay and Delsinne, 2009 is available (February, 2009)

The revision of the New World species of Pachycondyla is nearly completed, including Cryptopone (February, 2009). Please do not use any of the names of the new species until they have been published. Tambien hay claves de las especies de Pachycondyla en espanol, como Pachycondyla tambem no Portugues.

A revision of Simopelta is finished, including several new species (January, 2007). Please do not use any of the names of the new species until they have been published.

The Camponotus book has been updated (February,2007) Please do not use any of the names of the new species until they have been published.

The Ants of New Mexico book has been updated (February, 2007).

A Camponotus website, has been established for Camponotus, which includes the complete revision of the New World species, and will include other keys to regions, species complexes etc. It can be found listed in the Formicinae web page (December 2004). Keys to species are provided to much of Latin America (in Spanish)

Keys to Thaumatomyrmex, Gnamptogenys,and Rogeria are on the web (May 2004), Odontomachus and Anochetus (April 2004), Mycetosoritis and Mycocepurus (October 2003).

Original materials on this web site are copyrighted. Limited use for educational purposes is allowed provided proper credit is given; as a courtesy, please inform us of such use. Commercial use of images or text, in whole or in part, is expressly forbidden without formal, written approval. Contact the Laboratory forcopyright information.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0405470, W. Mackay, Principal Investigator.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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