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Collections of ants were carried out for a 7 month period in Poring, Kinabalu Park, Sabah. In total 46,999 individual ants were collected, representing 6 subfamilies. These subfamilies were represented by 52 genera and 125 morphospecies. Percentages of species in the various subfamilies were as follows: Myrmicinae 44.8%; Formicinae, 24.8%; Ponerinae, 14.4%; Dolichoderinae, 13.6%; Dorylinae, 1.6% and Pseudomyrmecinae, 0.8%. The 2 genera with the highest number of species were Pheidole and Dolichoderus with 12 each. Ninety-five species were collected by baited pitfall traps and 71 species were collected manually. Using a one way ANOVA no significant difference in the number of species was found between the 2 methods.
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Mohamed, M., Hussein, A., Kadri, A. (1996). Terrestrial Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Poring, Kinabalu Park, Sabah. In: Edwards, D.S., Booth, W.E., Choy, S.C. (eds) Tropical Rainforest Research — Current Issues. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1685-2_11
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