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New Ant Website

Ants of Cyprus is a new web site that aims to aggregate, summarize and present all available knowledge on the ants of Cyprus, while investigating the island's ant biodiversity, their spatiotemporal patterns and biological invasions of alien species.

It is dynamic, user-friendly website that can be used by anyone. If you are a researcher studying ants, insects etc. or simply interested in ants, their complex lifestyle or ecological significance you should visit this site!

A major worker/soldier with swollen abdomen (food storage), minors, and brood of Carebara jajoby (Image by Christian Peeters).
An image from the 2018 revision of the Carebara of the Malagasy Region by Azore and Fisher. [1].

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