ABSTRACT

The ant samples were collected from various localities in Rahata tehsil from August 2018 to May 2019. Most of the ant species are found in agricultural and grass land habitats as compare to human habitat. All the collected ant samples were represents to super family Formicoidea of order Hymenoptera, eighteen different species belongs to family Formicidae under four subfamilies and twelve genera. Out of which majority of species in subfamily Myrmicinae represents (44.45%), subfamily Formicinae (33.33%), followed by subfamily Ponerinae (16.67%) and minimum in subfamily Dolichoderinae (5.55%). The genus represent numbers of species are like Camponotus (3), Crematogaster (2), Monomorium (2), Pheidole (2), Leptogeys (2), Myrmicaria (1), Solenopsis (1), Oceophylla (1), Paratrechina (1), Polyrchis (1), Pachycondyla (1) and Tapinoma (1) respectively. Ants are playing important ecological role in ecosystem. Keywords: Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ants, Rahata, habitats, ecological role
Publication date: 01/07/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.7.6210