Outline of ants


The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ants:
Ants - social insects with elbowed antennae and a distinctive node-like structure that forms a slender waist. Ants are of the family Formicidae and evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago, diversifying after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 out of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.

Essence of ants

;Extant subfamilies
;Fossil subfamilies

Myrmecologists