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Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
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''; : 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 name and ...
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 to build.
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