Talk:Ant

Semi-protected edit request on 25 February 2025

Change "The head, mesosoma, and metasoma are the three distinct body segments (formally tagmata)." to "The body is divided into three major subunits, formally tagmata: the head, mesosoma, and metasoma". 109.255.211.6 (talk) 05:42, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Partly done: The existing wording was a bit clunky, so I took a stab at clearing it up. I did not adopt your exact wording (our article on tagma specifically uses the "segment" terminology, rather than "subunits", for instance) but I tried to keep the spirit. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 20:23, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at this. I think the tagma article makes clear why we specifically shouldn't refer to them as "segments": that has a particular technical meaning in arthropod morphology. A tagma consists of multiple segments, so this is confusing or even misleading. a tagma is a specialized grouping of multiple segments or metameres into a coherently functional morphological unit. If you're not keen on "subunit" could I suggest "division", "portion", "section" or some such term? Thanks again. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 08:32, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done I see now what you mean, and have substituted "sections". DrOrinScrivello (talk) 19:34, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Excellent work! Thanks again (again). 109.255.211.6 (talk) 11:27, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 July 2025

§ Relationships with other organisms, second-to-last paragraph, first sentence:

Army ants which is the toxin found in forage in a wide roving column, attacking any animals in that path that are unable to escape.

The "which is the toxin found in" insertion looks like a classic copy and paste mistake to me. 2A02:560:4DFA:C000:DEE:AFC0:9ABD:4CF9 (talk) 09:39, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Seems to be some botched edit, fixed. Thanks for spotting that. Shyamal (talk) 09:59, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 September 2025

Relationship of ants with aculeate wasp families

Aculeata Chrysidoidea Vespidae Rhopalosomatidae Pompilidae Mutillidae Tiphiidae Chyphotidae Scolioidea Apoidea Formicoidea

Phylogenetic position of the Formicidae as seen in Johnson et al. (2013)

Relationships of ant subfamilies

Formicoidea (Formicidae) Formicoid Myrmicinae Ectatomminae Formicinae Dolichoderinae Aneuretinae Pseudomyrmecinae Myrmeciinae Dorylinae‡ Poneroid Ponerinae Agroecomyrmecinae Paraponerinae Proceratiinae Amblyoponinae Apomyrminae Leptanilloid Leptanillinae Martialinae

A phylogeny of the extant ant subfamilies. *Cerapachyinae is paraphyletic ‡ The previous dorylomorph subfamilies – Ecitoninae, Aenictinae, Aenictogitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Leptanilloidinae – were synonymized under Dorylinae by Brady et al. in 2014

爱蚁小白 (talk) 03:12, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Updated. Thank you. Shyamal (talk) 08:00, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 16 May 2026

Change Meat eater ant nest during swarming to Meat Ant nest during swarming

Change Fertilised meat-eater ant queen beginning to dig a new colony to Fertilised Meat Ant queen beginning to dig a new colony Austriants (talk) 12:22, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done, but note that "meat-eater ant" is mentioned as an alternate name at the article (with the hyphen). But since this is the main name, and was already used in one other place in the article; I changed them to that for consistency. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 12:59, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

High-quality macro photo suggestion

Hi everyone! I have captured a high-quality macro photo of an ant's head (focus stacked) and would love to share it to help improve the article. Since the page is currently protected, could someone please help me add it, or guide me on where it would fit best? Thanks a lot! Жура Тимофій (talk) 13:59, 20 June 2026 (UTC)