Specimen databse for 2018:

You can download the excel file here: sample database 2019.xlxs

Please add your specimen data and send it to DRNash@bio.ku.dk

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Lectures:

You can view/download Powerpoint and PDF versions of the lectures here:

Keeping ants

How to prepare ants for a collection

Location:

The course will mostly take place in the colloquium room (room 239) on the first floor of Universitetsparken 15 building 3, You can find a map to get you to building 3 at:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bJYwSWyE3a7w-n4Om8WbU2B9wjc&usp=sharing

You can view/download a floor plan of the first floor of building 3 as a PDF file here.

Timetable for the course:

You can view/download the timetable for the course as a PDF file here.

New books/keys to European ants for 2019

Two new books on European ants have been released in 2019, and we will eb trialling the keys in these books during the course. If you have a copy of either of these books (or have a chance to get one before the course), please bring it along. We have a couple of examples of each in Copenhagen, which we can use during the course, but the more copies we have the better:

Seifert, B. (2018). The Ants of Central and North Europe. Lutra Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Tauer, Germany. ISBN 9783936412079 An English edition of Bernhard Seifert's book (see below), expanded with new information. Find a review of the book in Myrmecological News here	Lebas, C., Galkowski, C., Blatrix, R., and Wegnez, P. (2019). Ants of Britain and Europe - A photographic guide. Bloomsbury Wildlife, London. ISBN 9781472954084 A new book in 2019, which looks promising, and is readily available. Find it on Google books here.

Older books with keys

We also have copies of these books available: please feel free to bring any other books with keys that you may have.

Seifert, B. (1996). Ameisen: beobachten, bestimmen. Naturbuch Verlag, Augsburg. ISBN 9783894401702	Seifert, B. (2007). Die Ameisen Mittel- und Nordeuropas. Lutra Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Tauer, Germany. ISBN 9783936412031	Czechowski, W., Radchenko, A., Czechowska, W., and Vepsäläinen, K. (2012). The Ants of Poland: With Reference to the Myrmecofauna of Europe. Natura optima dux Foundation, Warsaw. ISBN 9788393077342	Douwes, P., Abenius, J., Cederberg, B., Wahlstedt, U., and Hall, K. (2012). Steklar: Myror-getingar: Hymenoptera: Formicidae-Vespidae: denna volym offattar samtliga nordiska arter. ArtDatabanken, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Uppsala. ISBN 9789188506788

Background reading material

Baroni Urbani 1977 Acta Zoologica Fennica.pdf
Collingwood 1979 The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark.pdf
Seifert 2017 Myrmecological News.pdf
Seppä 2011 Myrmecological News.pdf (supplement)
Ward 2014 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics.pdf
Ward 2014 Systematic Entomology.pdf
Ward 2016 Zootaxa.pdf

Identification keys etc. (see also Collingwood 1979 above)

Glossary of terms

Nationalnyckeln - Ants of Sweden:
Subfamilies
Formicinae - Genera
Lasius
Myrmicinae

Nielsen & Larsen (2012) Myrer i Danmark

Bernard (1968) Les fourmis [hymenoptera formicidae] d'Europe occidental et septentrional

Useful web sites:

AntWeb (Images of specimens etc.)
www.alexanderwild.com (The Ant photography of Alex Wild; see also myrmecos.net)html
AntWiki
AntMaps

last updated Friday, August 23, 2019 15:40