Ameisen: Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse

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Lepeco, A.; Meira, O. M.; Matiela, D. M.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Camacho, G. P. 2025. A hell ant from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Current Biology 35:1-8, e1-e2.

Pdf:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144482

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Schifani, E.; Alicata, A.; Prebus, M. M.; Csősz, S. 2025. Integrative description of Temnothorax siculus sp. n.: a new ant species from Sicily, Italy (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Diversity 17 (4):1-17.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144484

Text, pdf and key:

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/4/294

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Pazmiño-Palomino, A.; Troya, A.; Arredondo, B. S. 2025. Nesomyrmex paquisha: a new rough tree ant species from the isolated Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador. Journal of Natural History 59 (17-20):1181-1208.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144470

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Tetramorium sinensis sp. nov., a parabiotic ant from China, with a key to the Tetramorium inglebyi group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
Benan Zhang, Congcong Du, Zhilin Chen.

Text, pdf and key:

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/137346/

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Salata, S.; Yazdanian, M.; Jafari, F.; Afshari, A.; Borowiec, L. 2025. Cataglyphis golestanica sp. nov., a new species of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 132 (1):25-31.

Pdf and very small key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144493

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Reyes-López, J. L. 2025. The ant genus Oxyopomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from the Peninsula Iberica: two new species and new distributional data. Insects 16 (6):1-14.

Pdf and small key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144499

Text, pdf, small key and suppl. file:

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/6/581

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Ward, P. S.; Fisher, B. L.; Wernegreen, J. J.; Blaimer, B. B. 2025. Evolutionary history, novel lineages and symbiont coevolution in the ant tribe Camponotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 50 (3):646-676.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144503

Text, pdf, key and 2 suppl. files:

https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley ... syen.12678

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Zharkov, D. M.; Dubovikoff, D. A.; Abakumov, E. V. 2025. A new spineless species of the genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from late Eocene Baltic amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 87:224-229.

Pdf:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144504

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Hamer, M. T.; Gómez, K.; Jocque, M. 2025. A new Xymmer Santschi, 1914 (Formicidae: Amblyoponinae) species from the Congo Basin, with male and female descriptions of X. muticus (Santschi, 1914). Zootaxa 5647 (5):479-495.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144506

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Liang, X.; Du, C.; Chen, Z. 2025. Taxonomy of the myrmicine ant genus Syllophopsis Santschi, 1915 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5652 (1):103-110.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144508

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Chen, Z.; Liang, X.; Du, C. 2025. Taxonomy of the ant genus Protanilla Taylor in Bolton, 1990 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from China, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5652 (1):111-128.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144509

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Zięcina, D.; Salata, S.; Borowiec, L. 2025. Further additions to the taxonomy and distribution of the Temnothorax graecus and T. aveli species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Greece. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 75:419-435.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144511

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Monomorium dine sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): a new inquiline social parasite ant species from North America.
Stefan P. Cover,  Christian Rabeling.

Text, pdf and key:

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/145 ... onomorium/

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Radchenko, A. 2025. Ants of the genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 75(2):437-454.

Pdf and key:

https://www.antcat.org/references/144512

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Treachery pigmentation pattern leads to misidentification: Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius), Tapinoma pygmaeum (Dufour) and Tapinoma jandai sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
Bernhard Seifert.

Text and pdf:

https://contributions-to-entomology.arp ... le/154879/

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There appaered a few articles worth reading:

Aibekova, L., Richter, A., Beutel, R.G., Economo, E.P., Griebenow, Z., Boudinnot, B.E. (In Press) The mesosoma of Protanilla (Leptanillinae), a phylogenetic key taxon of ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). Journal of Morphology.

Text and pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70064

Vizueta, J., Xiong, Z., Ding, G., Larsen, R.S., Gao, Q., Stiller, J., Dai, W., Jiang, W., Zhao, J., Guo, C., Zhang, X., Zuo, D., Zhong, W., Schiøtt, M., Liu, C., Zhang, H., Dai, X., Andreu, I., Shi, Y., Tretter, S., He, D., Gautam, S., Li, Z., Hickey, G., Ivens, A., Meurville, M., Hita-Garcia, F., Kass, J.M., Guenard, B., Moreau, C., Paten, B., LeBouf, A., Economo, E.P., GAGA Consortium, Chapusiat, M., Shik, J.Z., Ward, P.S., Heinze, J., Schultz, T., Li, Q., Dunn, R., Sanders, N., Liu, W., Schrader, L., Boomsma, J., Zhang, G. (2025) Adaptive radiation of social evolution of the ants. Cell.

It gives an explanation of how ants adapted their lives when they evolved and basing their results on 18 complete genomes from the past and 145 new complete genomes. Text and pdf:

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00617-8

Tsang, T.P.S, Wong, M.K.L., Cadotte, M.W., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B. (2025) Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments. Diversity and Distributions 35: e70041.

Text and pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf ... /ddi.70041

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And:

Zurapiti, Y., Kass, J.M., Guenard, B., Economo, E.P. (2025) Forecasting invasive establishment and source regions for species communities: a case study for potential ant (Formicidae) invasions to Japan. Ecological Applications 35: e70071.

Text and pdf:

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley ... /eap.70071

Jarzyna, M.A., Ohyama, L. Economo, E.P., Gill, J., Mascarenhas, R., Okie, J.G., Qin, C., Rabosky, D.L., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Hickerson, M.J., Gillespie, R., McGill, B.  (2025) Emergence and dynamics of regional species pools. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34: e70046.

Text and pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf ... /geb.70046

And at last, a complete up to date evolutionary review, giving all previous trees and making the last one the best:

Evaluating UCE Data Adequacy and Integrating Uncertainty in a Comprehensive Phylogeny of Ants.
Marek L Borowiec , Y Miles Zhang , Karen Neves , Manuela O Ramalho , Brian L Fisher , Andrea Lucky , Corrie S Moreau.

Text and pdf:

https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance ... 01/7945422

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And an oldy, Douwes.... 1990:

https://antcat.org/documents/8785/douwes.pdf