Finally, a new publication:
Jaitrong, W.; Yamane, S.; Noon-Anant, N. 2023. The Thai species of the Polyrhachis (Myrmatopa) flavicornis Smith, 1857 species group, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae). Zootaxa 5249 (4):446-464.
Pdf with key to Thai species only:
Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2022. A monographic review of ants of Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Vol. 1. Introduction and review of all subfamilies except the subfamily Myrmicinae. Part 1: text. Bytom: Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum, 1-297.
https://antcat.org/documents/8396/borowiecsalata_2022_monographofgreekantsvolume1_part_1_text.pdf
Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2022. A monographic review of ants of Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Vol. 1. Introduction and review of all subfamilies except the subfamily Myrmicinae. Part 2: plates with color photos. Bytom: Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum, 301-757.
https://antcat.org/documents/8397/borowiecsalata_2022_monographofgreekantsvolume1_part_2_plates.pdf
Passera, L., Aron, S., 2005, “Les fourmis: comportement, organisation sociale et évolution.” Les Presses scientifiques du CNRS, Ottawa, Canada, 480 pp.
Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Antonova, V., 2022, “An updated checklist of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria, after 130 years of research.” Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e95599, p. 1-33. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e95599
- 33 pp., 0 figs. - [2022-11-09].
107 references.
A new taxonomic work:
Johnson, R. A.; Borowiec, M. L.; Snelling, R. R.; Cole, A. C. 2022. A taxonomic revision and a review of the biology of the North American seed-harvester ant genus Veromessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 5206 (1):1-115.
Pdf and keys:
https://antcat.org/documents/8394/johnson_et_al_2022_zootaxa_veromessor_review.pdf
A new study of an ant head but this time from a fossil ant:
Richter, A.; Boudinot, B.; Yamamoto, S.; Katzke, J.; Beutel, R. G. 2022. The first reconstruction of the head anatomy of a Cretaceous insect, †Gerontoformica gracilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and the early evolution of ants. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(5), 4:1-80.
Pdf:
Text, pdf and 9 supplemental files:
Harshana, A.; Dey, D. 2022. Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Lepisiota Santschi 1926 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) in India, with description of four new species. Oriental Insects -:1-35.
Chen, Z.; Liang, C.; Du, C. 2022. Revision of Chinese species of the ant genus Parasyscia Emery, 1882 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae). Zootaxa 5196 (3):301-330.
Pdf and key Asian species:
https://antcat.org/documents/8356/chen_et_al_2022_zootaxa_chinese_parasyscia.pdf
The new list:
Including this:
- T. impurum (Förster, 1850) (= Myrmica impura Förster, 1850)
- T. caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758) (= Formica caespitum Linnaeus, 1758)
- T. chefketi Forel, 1911 (= T. caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758) var. chefketi Forel, 1911)
- T. immigrans Santschi, 1927 (= T. caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758) var. immigrans Santschi, 1927)
- T. staerckei Kratochvíl, in Kratochvíl, Novák, Šnoflák, 1944 (= T. caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758) subsp. hungarica Röszler, 1935 ("1933-34") var. staerckei Röszler, 1936)
- T. diomedeum Emery, 1908 (= T. caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758) var. diomedea Emery, 1908)
- T. sepositum Santschi, 1918 (= T. gladstonei Forel, 1913 var. seposita Santschi, 1918)
- P. megacephala (Fabricius, 1793) (= Formica megecephala Fabricius, 1793) (= Formica edax Forskål, 1775, a nomen oblitum under Art. 23.9 of ICZN (1999))
- P. megacephala (Fabricius, 1793) subsp. melancholica Santschi, 1912 was originally described as P. punctulata Mayr, 1866 st. melancholica Santschi, 1912
- P. strobeli Emery, 1906 (= P. perversa Forel, 1908 subsp. richteri Forel, 1909, or, in 1922, at the moment the extreme, workerless inquiline species was described, = P. strobeli Emery, 1906 subsp. richteri Forel, 1909.)
- P. nitidula Emery, 1888 (= P. triconstricta Forel, 1886 var. nitidula Emery, 1888)
- P. obscurior Forel, 1886 (= P. susannae Forel, 1886 r. obscurior Forel, 1886)
Two additions:
About the relation between myrmecophiles and ants:
01) Hölldobler, B. K., Kwapich, C. L., 2022, “The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts.” Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, xvi + 560 pp.
A unique booklet about a special group of ants:
01) Kutter, H., 1968 (“1969”), “Die sozialparasitischen Ameisen der Schweiz.” Neujahrsblatt herausgegeben von der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich auf das Jahr 1969, vol. 171, (Ausgegeben am 31. Dezember 1968), p. 1-62.
Sämi Schär 2022: Neuer Fund der Endameise Tetramorium inquilinum Ward et al., 2015 (= Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter, 1950) beim Typenfundort Saas-Fee.
ENTOMO HELVETICA 15: 91 – 97.
105 references.
Chaul, J. C. M. 2022. Redescription of Eurhopalothrix reichenspergeri (Santschi, 1923) stat. rev. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Brazilian Atlantic Forest endemic species. Zootaxa 5182 (1):1-20.
Key and pdf:
https://antcat.org/documents/8310/chaul_2022_eurhopalothrix.pdf
The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity.
JAMIE M. KASS, BENOIT GUÉNARD , et al.
Text, pdf and supplemental files:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abp9908
Updating the taxonomy of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in China with descriptions of three new species.
CONG LIU, GEORG FISCHER, QING LIU, YAN-QIONG PENG, EVAN P. ECONOMO, BENOIT GUÉNARD.
Pdf and Chinees species key:
https://antcat.org/documents/8312/liu_2022_myrmecina.pdf
Formica picea and F. candida (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Synonyms or Two Species?
by Zoya A. Zhigulskaya, Sergei V. Shekhovtsov, Tatiana V. Poluboyarova and Daniil I. Berman.
Diversity 2022, 14(8), 613.
Text and pdf:
Sämi Schär 2022: Neuer Fund der Endameise Tetramorium inquilinum Ward et al., 2015 (= Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter, 1950) beim Typenfundort Saas-Fee.
ENTOMO HELVETICA 15: 91 – 97.
Sadly NO free link...
Troya, A.; Lattke, J. 2022. Neoponera Emery, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revisited: 1. The N. laevigata species-group. Insect Systematics & Evolution -:1-76.
Pdf, supplements, text:
Pdf:
A new species of the ant Platythyrea clypeata species group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae) from continental Asia.
Weeyawat Jaitrong, Zhenghui Xu, Salinee Khachonpisitsak.
Text and pdf:
Schifani, E.; Prebus, M. M.; Alicata, A. 2022. Integrating morphology with phylogenomics to describe four island endemic species of Temnothorax from Sicily and Malta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 833:143-179.
Text, pdf and supplement:
Pdf:
Sadasivan, K.; Kripakaran, M. 2022. First record of Proceratium Roger, 1863, Zasphinctus Wheeler, 1918, and Vollenhovia Mayr, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Western Ghats of peninsular India, description of three new species, and implications for Indian biogeography. Journal of Threatened Taxa 14 (7):21368–21387.
Ants of the genus Gauromyrmex Menozzi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with description of a new species from China.
DEFU CHEN & ZHILIN CHEN.
http://www.asian-myrmecology.org/publications/am15/chen-and-chen2022-am015007.pdf
Uncovering cryptic diversity in the enigmatic ant genus Overbeckia and insights into the phylogeny of Camponotini (Hymenoptera : Formicidae : Formicinae).
Petr Klimeš, Jochen Drescher, Damayanti Buchori, Purnama Hidayat, Rizky Nazarreta, Pavel Potocký, Maling Rimandai, Stefan Scheu and Pável Matos-Maraví.
Supplements:
Pdf:
https://antcat.org/documents/8301/2022-klimes-etal-is21067.pdf
Discovery of a new phragmotic species of the ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Cambodia.
Shingo Hosoishi, Seiki Yamane, Heng Sokh.
Text, key and pdf:
https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/82490/
The previous concept of the cosmopolitan pest ant Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) includes two species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Tapinoma).
Bernhard Seifert.
Abstract and pdf:
https://www.osmia-journal-hymenoptera.com/osmia-10-4.html
Pdf:
https://antcat.org/documents/8290/seifert-2022_tapinoma-melanocephalum-two-species_osmia-10.pdf
Trait-based paleontological niche prediction demonstrates deep time parallel ecological occupation in specialized ant predators.
Christine E. Sosiak, Tyler Janovitz, Vincent Perrichot, John Paul Timonera, Phillip Barden.
Or: How Haidomyrmecinae lived....
Pdf:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.09.495514v1.full.pdf
A review of the life of Tetramorium immigrans, includes a pdf:
Published in AntCat but without the supplemental files.
It is about the relation between the extant ant subfamilies, all with at least 1 genome recorded and with 65 new genomes....
Romiguier, J.; Borowiec, M. L.; Weyna, A.; Helleu, Q.; Loire, E.; La Mendola, C.; Rabeling, C.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S.; Keller, L. 2022. Ant phylogenomics reveals a natural selection hotspot preceding the origin of complex eusociality. Current Biology 32:1–6.
https://antcat.org/documents/8…iol_ant_phylogenomics.pdf
Gómez, K., Kouakou, L., Fischer, G., Hita–Garcia, F., Katzke, J., Economo, E.P. (In Press) Pheidole klaman sp. n.: A new addition from Ivory Coast to the Afrotropical pulchella species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zookeys.
Article, pdf and 3 supplements (film!):
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/81562/
Forti, L. C.; De Andrade, A. P. P.; Camargo, R. S.; Filho, T. M. M. M.; Scudillio, T. T.; Zanuncio, J. C.; Sousa, K. K. A.; Caldato, N. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the leaf‑cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus (Forel, 1893). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science -:12 pp.
Pdf with determination key:
https://antcat.org/documents/8275/forti-2022-taxonomic-revision-of-the-leaf-cutt.pdf
Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S. 2022. Tapinoma yacoubi, sp. nov., a new ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia. Zoology in the Middle East -:1-6.
Pdf with determination key:
https://antcat.org/documents/8276/09397140-2022_tapinoma_yacoubi.pdf
Probst, R. S.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2022 ("2022"). A taxonomic revision of the dirt ants, Basiceros Schulz, 1906 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 5149(1):001-075.
Pdf:
https://antcat.org/documents/8279/probst___brandao__2022-_basiceros_revision.pdf
Antony, A. K.; Prasad, G. 2022. Two new species of army ants of the Aenictus ceylonicus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 14 (3):20780–20785.
Pdf and determination key:
Found this a few days ago. It looks bright as far as I am now and I hope it stays like that...
Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea:†@@@ idae fam. nov., Formicidae)
Authors
Brendon E Boudinot, Ziad Khouri, Adrian Richter, Zachary H Griebenow, Thomas van de Kamp, Vincent Perrichot, Phillip Barden
Publication date
2022/1/1
Journal
bioRxiv
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Only the article without any supplements... 450 pages, online since 25/02/2022.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.20.480183v1 and https://www.biorxiv.org/conten…2.02.20.480183v1.full.pdf
After a few times the head and ones the thorax, now the next part:
Lieberman, Z. E.; Billen, J. P. J.; van de Kamp, T.; Boudinot, B. E. 2022. The ant abdomen: The skeletomuscular and soft tissue anatomy of Amblyopone australis workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Morphology –:1–78.
Text, pdf and 2 supplements:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.21471
Pdf:
https://antcat.org/documents/8255/lieberman_et_al_2022_jmorphol_amblyopone_abdomen_anatomy.pdf
And more:
https://antcat.org/documents/8256/billen2022_article_surveyoftheexocrineglandsinwor.pdf
Rakotonirina, J. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2022. Revision of the Malagasy Camponotus subgenus Myrmosaga (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using qualitative and quantitative morphology. ZooKeys 1098:1-180.
Pdf:
Text, pdf and supplement:
