Search for a scientific name.Enter in the search box the name of a family, genus, or species. Examples: Ponerinae, Amblyopone, Amblyopone pallipes. All searching is by scientific name. It is not possible to search for 'all ants that take slaves', 'all ants described by W.M. Wheeler', etc.
Searching is case sensitive: 'Ponerinae' and 'ponerinae' are different.
Either '*' or '%' can be used as a wildcard character that matches any string of characters (even a string with 0 characters in it).
If you search for a name that is not valid (i.e. not the currently accepted name), a pair of links will be returned. For example:
where Stigmatomma is a junior synonym of the valid genus Amblyopone.
In each of the 3 examples below, the 3 search strings find the same name.