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ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 ...
s: storing specimens images and records, and natural history information, and documenting over 490,000 specimens across over 35,000
taxa
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...
of ants in its open source and community driven repository . It was set up by
Brian L. Fisher in 2002, and cost US$30,000 dollars to build.
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