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An AntWiki Milestone AntWiki recently added its 600th identification key! While many of these are taken straight from the literature, a number have been updated to include recently described taxa, some of these taxa being keyed for the first time. AntWiki editors are now adding images to these keys as well adding new keys and updating existing keys. Brian Fisher and Barry Bolton's just published Ants of Africa and Madagascar is a must-have for anyone interested in the biology and identification of ants, even those never intending to visit Africa or Madagascar. It sets a new standard for regional treatments, bringing together a vast amount of information and illustrations in a very accessible and well presented format. Congratulations to both on pulling off such a huge task.

Ants, Daisy Chains and Leptogenys. © Stéphane De Greef, used with permission. Workers of the Leptogenys chalybaea species group are swarm raiders that primarily prey on large millipedes. The ants attack and immobilize these relatively large prey and can then form chains of workers to drag their newly acquired trove of nutrients back to the nest (Peeters & De Greef 2015). The Leptogenys chalybaea species pages includes a youtube video of this behavior that has been watched close to 3 million times!

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How Many Ants?	Taxa Described	Most Viewed Pages
17 subfamilies    403 genera and subgenera    15,415 species and subspecies    3 fossil subfamilies    148 fossil genera    804 fossil species and subspecies	This Year    Last Year    All Years	All Pages: Brazil, Australian ants, Argentina, Australia, Panama, Colombia, Ants of the Navajo Reservation, Ecuador, Borneo    Genera: Aphaenogaster, Camponotus, Aenictus, Cerapachys, Acropyga, Anochetus, Formica, Crematogaster, Leptogenys, Tetramorium, Pheidole, Polyrhachis    Species: Lasius niger, Solenopsis invicta, Cardiocondyla emeryi, Acropyga acutiventris, Camponotus herculeanus, Myrmica rubra, Monomorium floricola, Acropyga epedana, Myrmica scabrinodis, Camponotus ligniperda    Biology: Life in an Ant Colony, Social Parasitism, The Ants, Ritualised fighting in Iridomyrmex purpureus, Foraging behaviors in Poneroids and Ectatomminae

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