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Welcome to WikiProject Insects' ant task force! See also our parent task force: Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/Hymenoptera task force.

Ant alerts

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Todo

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Shortcut: WP:ANTS/TODO

Articles to be created

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)^[1].
Lioponera[1], Chrysapace[2], Eusphinctus[3], Ooceraea[4], Parasyscia[5], Syscia[6], Yunodorylus[7], Zasphinctus[8], Fulakora[9]

Articles in need of updating

Update the (mostly tribal) taxonomy of the myrmicines per Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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.

Synonyms or misspellings

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.

Species lists in need of updating

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

Taxa with members in need of updating

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Other tasks

Cleanup listing for WikiProject Insects/ant task force

Tasks by subfamily

Create articles on all genera
Create articles on all extant species
Add species lists to all extant genera
All articles: Add references or tag unreferenced paragraphs with {{cn}}. Articles should contain 100% referenced/tagged content.
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	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done
Amblyoponinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Aneuretinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
†Armaniinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	—	—	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done
†Brownimeciinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	—	—	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done
Dolichoderinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Dorylinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Ectatomminae	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
†Formiciinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	—	—	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done
Formicinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:X mark.svg Not done
†Haidomyrmecinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	—	—	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done
Leptanillinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Martialinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done
Myrmeciinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/ant task force/todo/Myrmicinae}}	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Paraponerinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Ponerinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Proceratiinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
Pseudomyrmecinae	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:X mark.svg Not done
†Sphecomyrminae	File:X mark.svg Not done	—	—	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done
†Zigrasimeciinae	File:X mark.svg Not done	—	—	File:Yes check.svg Done	File:Yes check.svg Done

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

Proposed categories

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)

Proposed templates

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

New articles

Transcluded from User:AlexNewArtBot/AntsSearchResult (WP:ANTS/NEW)

User:AlexNewArtBot/AntsSearchResult

Watchlist

Ant genera
- Monotypic ant genera
Ant tribes
Fossil ant taxa
Ant stubs
Ant subfamilies
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- Formiciinae

- Formicinae
- Heteroponerinae
- Leptanillinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- Sphecomyrminae
Ants
Myrmecology
bold = large category

Task force tagging

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

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ant task force articles by quality statistics}} Updated daily (force update)

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Ant task force articles

Assessment log

Shortcut: WP:ANTS/LOG

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

Popular pages

Shortcut: WP:ANTS/PP

Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/ant task force/Popular pages

Recognized content

Shortcut: WP:ANTS/RC

Transcluded from /Recognized content

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/ant task force/Recognized content}}

Participants

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 LN 6 - Updating extant taxa and removing outdated material

Templates

Userbox

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

File:Tux Paint ant.svg

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.

File:Ant Barnstar.svg		The Ant Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

Resources

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