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Taxonomic Inventory of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Jammu and Kashmir State

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Biodiversity of the Himalaya: Jammu and Kashmir State

Part of the book series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation ((TOBC,volume 18))

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This chapter presents the first ever taxonomic inventory of ant species recorded from the Jammu and Kashmir State. The inventory is based on relevant scientific literature and museum collections, combined with data obtained from the field surveys since 2008. In total, there are 198 ant taxa (species and subspecies) representing 54 genera in 7 subfamilies recorded from Jammu and Kashmir. Looking ahead, the study clearly highlights that much research efforts are required to document the unknown ant diversity of this Himalayan region.

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Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks are due to Dr. Irfan Gul for providing the distributional records of some unpublished taxa in Jammu and Kashmir. We are also thankful to AntWeb (www.antweb.org), AntMaps (www.antmaps.org) and AntWiki (www.antwiki.org) for their immensely useful work.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Government Degree College, Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo

  2. Division of Plant Protection, Department of Entomology, Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Shahid Ali Akbar

  3. Department of Zoology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Ulfat Jan & Ghulam Mustafa Shah

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    Ghulam Hassan Dar

  2. Centre for Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Anzar A. Khuroo

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Wachkoo, A.A., Akbar, S.A., Jan, U., Shah, G.M. (2020). Taxonomic Inventory of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Jammu and Kashmir State. In: Dar, G., Khuroo, A. (eds) Biodiversity of the Himalaya: Jammu and Kashmir State . Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9174-4_27

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