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from two damaged specimens collected in 1931-32,nearEsperance,Western Australia,the species was recently rediscovered onthe Eyre Peninsula,South Australia,by an Australian National_InsectCollection field party.The ant is shown here in laboratory culture.Presentare a worker (below),the colony queen(right)and a male(left)standingon larvae and cocoon-enclosed pupae.  \nPhotograph:Peter J.Hay.CSIRO,Dlvislon of Entomology,Canberra.  \nCourtesy:Dr R.W.Taylor.  \n# A Guide to Antsof South Australia\n\nP.J.M.Greenslade  \nSpecial Educational Bulletin SeriesSouth Australian MuseumAdelaide 1979  \nFirst published 1979  \nCopyright CSouth Australian Museum  \nNational Library of Australia card number and ISBN0724357304  \nOrders and enquiries to Publication Sales,South AustralianMuseum,North Terrace,Adelaide,S.Aust.5000  \nHead of Nothomyrmecia macrops worker.  \nForeword.·viiIntroduction.    ixNatural history of ants in SouthAustralia1Collecting and keeping ants6Structure of a worker ant .8Key to subfamilies  .10Subfamily Myrmeciinae .11Subfamily Nothomyrmeciinae.       13Subfamily Ponerinae.              14Subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae.      19Subfamily Myrmicinae.     20Subfamily Dolichoderinae.   .28Subfamily Formicinae32References     .41Postscript .42Index43  \n## Foreword\n\nThe world of insects,of which ants are apart,is too big for any one institution tocover effectively.The South AustralianMuseum is therefore very fortunate to haveDr P.J.M.Greenslade of the CSIRO Divisionof Soils at Glen Osmond as author of AGuide to Ants of South Australia,thesecond publication in our Special Educa-tion Bulletin Series.  \nDr Greenslade worked on ants in theSolomon Islands before coming to thisState and the very considerable knowledgehe has acquired of South Australian antswill be evident to the reader on every page  \nAnts are important in the soil,on theground surface and on vegetation,and theirnumbers in any one area are high sincethey are a very advanced group of theinsects with a well-developed social organi-zation which makes them formidable com-petitors to other insects and land arthro-pods not so highly evolved or organizea(compare man amongst mammals).  \nBy virtue of their numbers they tend tobe the dominant group of insects in what-ever environment they occur,but mostespecially in arid and semi-arid environ-ments.In this,the driest State of the world'sdriest habitable continent,our ant fauna  \nvii  \nplays proportionately a much moreimportant role in our local environments,bethey substantially unaltered or altered byEuropean man,than in moister regions.  \nAs there are hundreds of species of antsin South Australia,  many of themundescribed and many yet to be collected,Dr Greenslade does not attempt to discussall of our ants at specific level.He leadsthe reader through sections on the collec-tion and natural history of ants and dis-cusses in fair detail the subfamilies of antspresent in this part of Australia and the localgenera of ants included in them,many ofwhich occur in other States as well.As DrGreenslade discusses our ant fauna groupby group and genus by genus,he high-lights the role the particular types play inour ecosystems together with much otherinteresting information.He also describesbriefly the world's most primitive ant—a'living fossil'rediscovered recently in the farwest of South Australia.  \nThe reader,I believe,will learn muchabout the importance and complexity of theSouth Australian insect fauna as typified byants--a most interesting and advancedfamily of insects.  \nGordon F.GrossPrincipal Curator,  \nSouth Australian Museum  \n31.3.1979","cbCaif1GbZkj71l8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif1GbZkj71l8","pdf",3607452,"English","# A Guide to Ants of South Australia\n## Foreword\n## Introduction\n## Natural history of ants in South Australia\n## Collecting and keeping ants\n## Structure of a worker ant\n## Key to subfamilies\n## References\n## Postscript\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the scope of this guide to 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