Authors : Seema. G. Kadu
Page Nos : 198-201
Description :
Ants are the amazing, dominant and successful component of ecosystem, likely to be good indicators of ecosystem. The study of species richness and relative abundance of ant population and its cosmopolitan distribution is very important as they are considerable economic importance. Ants deserve a special place among the arthropod fauna to the study of ecology, including behavior, species richness, social habits and high densities. Ants are only constitute the largest chunk of the insects belonging to the endopterygote group. Up to this study 23 species of ants in 18 genera from 5 subfamilies were identified only. These ant species belong to five subfamilies, Formicinae, Myrmicinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae and Pseudomyrmicinae. In Nagpur (MS) region most of the tropical, warm, and temperate genera of ants belong to the subfamilies Crematogaster, Ponerinae and Componotinae are described. The most frequently observed genus areCamponotus and Crematogaster followed by the genera Pheidole and Solenopsis.
