Identification keys for ant species in Hawaii
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A key to the most pestiferous ant species threatening Hawaii's native fauna and flora (Reimer 1997) This key can help includes ant species most likely to cause a significant impact on Hawaii's native biota. This key was created by Neil Reimer (Hawaii Department of Agriculture) in 1997. Hawaii ants key, identification guide, and checklist "Discover Life" presents an excellent interactive identification guide to ants in Hawaii (as part of a larger set of worldwide ant identification guides) which includes pictorial ant identification information. Little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) identification key This key, provided by Antwatch, provides a tool to help determine whether your ant specimen is or is not the little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata). Little fire ant (Wasmannia) behavior key Use this interactive key to determine if your ants might be little fire ants (Wasmannia auropunctata). Antweb AntWeb, a product of the California Academy of Sciences, "provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Ants of importance to Hawaii land managers While not actually a key, this resource contains descriptions of key characters to aid in identifying 15 important ant species found in Hawaii. |
| The Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) is currently funded by grants from the Hau'oli Mau Loa Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service with support from PCSU (UH Manoa). Historically, HEAR has also received funding and/or support from the Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN) of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), PIERC (USGS), the USFWS, HCSU (UH Hilo), and HALE (NPS). |
| This page was created on 17 Feb. 2006 by LF, and was last updated on 04 July 2007 by PT. | |