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These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 23 November 2025. Update the table now This table is generated by querying the database replica and is periodically updated by a bot. Edits made within the table area will be removed on the next update! Edits Article Rating 5 Myrmecophagy GA 4 Toxicology of red imported fire ant venom C 3 Paraponera clavata C 2 Atta (ant) Start 2 Naarda tandoana Stub 2 Zasphinctus Stub 1 Ant FA 1 Camponotus fulvopilosus Stub 1 Camponotus horrens Stub 1 Cerapachys sulcinodis Stub 1 Dorymyrmex agallardoi Stub 1 Dorymyrmex chilensis Stub 1 Dorymyrmex goetschi Stub 1 Dorymyrmex hunti Stub 1 Dorymyrmex hypocritus Stub 1 Dorymyrmex incomptus Stub 1 Dorymyrmex pappodes Stub 1 Dorymyrmex pogonius Stub 1 E. O. Wilson B 1 Eciton Start 1 Euprenolepis Start 1 Eurymyrmex Stub 1 Formica japonica Start 1 Heteroponera carinifrons Stub 1 Leafcutter ant C 1 Meranoplus bellii Stub 1 Naarda fuliginaria Stub 1 Pheidole neokohli Stub 1 Polyrhachis bicolor Stub 1 Santschiella Stub 1 Tanipone Stub 1 Tapinoma andamanense Stub 1 Tapinoma antarcticum Stub 1 Tetramorium immigrans C 1 Them! C 1 Zasphinctus imbecilis Start ∑ 36 items | Query runtime: 0.68 s | Last updated: 05:25, 17 December 2025 (UTC) End of auto-generated report.
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Welcome to WikiProject Insects' ant task force! See also our parent task force: Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/Hymenoptera task force.

Transcluded from /Article alerts; see also /Article alerts/Archive

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• 30 Aug 2025 – Xymmer phungi (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jolielover (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 23 Aug 2025 – Prolasius advenus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by AxonsArachnida (t · c); see discussion

Transcluded from /todo (edit)

• User:Pengo/ants, ants ranked by commonness in publications
• See List of ant genera for redlink genera
• Winkler extraction
• Ant navigation
• Ant parasites
• Ant anatomy
• Trap-jaw ant - Currently a redirect to Odontomachus only; Perrichot et al (2016) notes the Haidomyrmecini, Anochetus, and Acanthognathus as all being "trap-jaw ants. User:Tsrsilv updated this list in the disambiguation page to include several other genera considered to be "trap-jaw" ants, following Larabee and Suarez (2014).
• Lioponera, Chrysapace, Eusphinctus, Ooceraea, Parasyscia, Syscia, Yunodorylus, Zasphinctus, Fulakora

• Update the (mostly tribal) taxonomy of the myrmicines per Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. N. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. D. R. (2015). "The evolution of myrmicine ants: Phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology. 40: 61–81. doi:10.1111/syen.12090. S2CID 83986771.
• Dorylinae - Talk:Dorylinae#2016 Revision
• Apomyrminae/Apomyrma - revived subfamily
• Solenopsis molesta - could use a clean up and more information and sources.
• Camponotus castaneus - No longer a stub, needs to be reviewed.
• Overbeckia
• Iberoformica and Iberoformica subrufa - inconsistent, likely need a merger.

• Leptothorax recedens --> Temnothorax recedens
• Leptothorax minutissimus --> Temnothorax minutissimus
• Leptothorax duloticus --> Temnothorax duloticus
• Aphaenogaster bidentatus (misspelled?)
• Myrmoxenus --> Temnothorax not fully accepted, notes added
• Pheidologeton diversus --> Carebara diversa (merge needed) (Merged)
• Pseudomyrmex ferruginea --> Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus??
• Lasius murphii --> Lasius murphyi ??
• Messor pergandei --> Veromessor pergandei
• Pheidologeton diversus --> Carebara diversa (Carebara is a more accepted name for this genus, and the species' name diversa is also more accepted but the page Pheidologeton diversus has more details on the species than the article Carebara diversa has, so if some contents were to be deleted during merger, I suggest that the contents on the article Pheidologeton diversus] to be kept.) (Merged. Pheidologeton diversus content was added to Carebara diversa page.

• Feel free to link articles containing out-of-date species lists here. See also aw-taxa (script for generating lists of genera/species from AntWeb's catalog).
• List of Camponotus species - multiple outdated taxa likely, multiple outdated taxa already corrected

• ...

• Cleanup listing for WikiProject Insects/ant task force

1. Create articles on all genera
2. Create articles on all extant species
3. Add species lists to all extant genera
4. All articles: Add references or tag unreferenced paragraphs with {{cn}}. Articles should contain 100% referenced/tagged content.
5. Expand subfamily article to at least start class.

Subfamily	#1 Create genus articles	#2 Create species articles	#3 Species lists	#4 Tag unreferenced	#5 Start or better
Agroecomyrmecinae‎	Done	Done	Done	Done	Done
Amblyoponinae	Done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
Aneuretinae	Not done	Done	Done	Done	Not done
†Armaniinae	Not done	—	—	Done	Done
†Brownimeciinae	Done	—	—	Done	Done
Dolichoderinae	Not done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
Dorylinae	Done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
Ectatomminae	Not done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
†Formiciinae	Done	—	—	Done	Done
Formicinae	Not done	Not done	Done	Not done	Not done
†Haidomyrmecinae	Not done	—	—	Not done	Done
Leptanillinae	Done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
Martialinae	Done	Done	Done	Done	Done
Myrmeciinae	Not done	Done	Done	Done	Not done
Myrmicinae Genus articles containing unreferenced/untagged content: Acromyrmex Atta (genus) Crematogaster edit	Not done	Not done	Done	Not done	Not done
Paraponerinae	Done	Done	Done	Done	Not done
Ponerinae	Not done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
Proceratiinae	Done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
Pseudomyrmecinae	Done	Not done	Done	Done	Not done
†Sphecomyrminae	Not done	—	—	Done	Done
†Zigrasimeciinae	Not done	—	—	Done	Done

• Add diversity parameters to the infobox of all non-monotypic extant genera (see Adetomyrma for an example): Myrmicinae  Not done
• Add at least one inline non-database reference (i.e. not AntCat/AntWeb/AntBase/EOL) to all extant genera: Myrmicinae  Not done

• Category:Lists of ants subcategories: by location, species by genus
• Category:Ants by ecozone? Category:Ants by continent? (see Category:Fauna by ecozone, Category:Fauna by continent)
• Category:Parasitic ants and Category:Parasites of ants? (see Category:Parasitic insects and Category:Parasites of insects)

• {{AntWeb}} – citation template
• {{AntWiki}}?

• Example template
  • {{WikiProject Insects|class=GA|importance=low|ants=yes|ants-importance=top}}
• Empty template:
  • {{WikiProject Insects|class=|importance=|ants=yes|ants-importance=}}

The importance parameter is shared by all WikiProject Insects pages and this will likely be set to low even for imporant ant articles, but be generous with the ant-priority assessment! We'd rather have a few extra high/mid-rated articles than having important ant articles lost in the low-priority category (which is where most species articles will end up).

Available parameters (see Template:WikiProject Insects for a full list):

• Task force params:
  • ants=yes
  • ants-importance=top/high/mid/low
• From the parent template:
  • class=FA/GA/B/C/start/stub/list
  • importance=top/high/mid/low
  • attention=yes
  • needs-photo=yes

Ant task force articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	1			4
FL		1				1
FM					4	4
GA	1	7	15	9		32
B	1	9	8	3		21
C	7	25	35	36		103
Start	6	24	115	142		287
Stub	2	13	303	2,025		2,343
List	1		9	17		27
Category					113	113
Disambig					8	8
File					1	1
Portal					1	1
Project					13	13
Redirect			4	105	117	226
Template					492	492
Assessed	20	80	490	2,337	749	3,676
Total	20	80	490	2,337	749	3,676
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 16,030			Ω = 5.75

Updated daily (force update)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ant task force articles by quality log

Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/ant task force/Popular pages

Transcluded from /Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:Ant task force articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

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  Ants eating cicada, jjron 22.11.2009
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  Carpenter ant Tanzania crop
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  Plectroctena sp ants
• Red weaver ants transporting a dead gecko, in Laos (video)

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  Ants eating cicada, jjron 22.11.2009
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  Carpenter ant Tanzania crop
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  Plectroctena sp ants
• Red weaver ants transporting a dead gecko, in Laos (video)

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  Haidoterminus cippus
  26 Oct 2013
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  Zigrasimecia tonsora
  27 Oct 2013
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  Acropyga glaesaria
  22 Nov 2013
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  Anonychomyrma constricta
  24 Dec 2013
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  Aphaenogaster amphioceanica
  15 Feb 2014
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  Aphaenogaster mersa
  10 Aug 2014
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  Asymphylomyrmex
  10 Sept 2014
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  Yantaromyrmex
  23 Feb 2015
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  Pachycondyla eocenica
  28 Sep 2015
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  Protopone primigena
  30 Oct 2015
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  Cyrtopone striata
  24 Nov 2015
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  Messelepone leptogenoides male
  05 Dec 2015

• Burklemore1 (extant species, extant genera and lists)
• Cwmhiraeth (Occasional ant-related article)
• Jonkerz (extant taxa)
• kevmin (fossil taxa)
• PrathuCoder (lists, assessment, and occasional expansions)
• FranticSpud(creation and expansion of extant species))
• Tsrsilv (extant species, lists, expansions)
• AxonsArachnida (extant New Zealand species)
• 2003 LN6 - Updating extant taxa and removing outdated material

Userbox

• {{User WikiProject Ants}}—a userbox indicating an editor is a participant of WikiProject Ants.

This user is a member of WikiProject Ants.

Barnstar

• {{The Ant Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~}}—an award placed at another users talk page for improving Ant-related articles.

		The Ant Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

• antcat.org – taxonomy
  • Journal and book references can be exported on the references' details pages (follow the linked reference id) and click on 'Export' --> 'Wikipedia' (example)
  • Export wiki-formatted lists of tribes/genera/species by appending "/wikipedia" to a catalog page's URL. Example: Lasius.
  • {{AntCat}} – citation template (append "/wikipedia" like described above to populate this template from a catalog page)
  • AntCat's recent changes page – useful for discovering changes in ant taxonomy
• antweb.org – images
• antwiki.org – good for finding references
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/ant task force/open access

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Category:Ants
• Community sandboxes, shared sandboxes for article (re)construction
• Task force subpages
• WP:INSECTS articles with links needing disambiguation
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Insects/ant task force (active subject-area editors)
• /topicon
• {{ant-stub}}, Category:Ant stubs, Random ant stub
• Category:Ant task force articles, Random ant article