Acknowledgments

Almost all the information in the Online Catalog of the Ants of North America comes from pervious sources. The most important of these are:

• Barry Bolton "A new general catalogue of the ants of the world." 1995. Harvard University Press. This is the "bible" for ant systematics. The vast majority of the nomenclature information comes from this source.
• Dave Smith "Superfamily Formicoidea" in "Catalog of the Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico" Krombien, et.al. 1979. The starting point for this work was scanning the ant section of the Smithsonian catalog. Many of the older literature references and some of the discussions of the individual species are taken from this source. The formatting of the "print" version of the Online Catalog is consciously patterned after the typography and layout in the Smithsonian catalog.
• Phil Ward "Bibliography of Ant Systematics" by Ward, Bolton, Shattuck & Brown. Phil Ward made available an electronic version of this bibliography that is a foundation of the bibliographic citations.
• Daniel Wojcik and Sanford Porter "FORMIS: a master bibliography of ant literature". The Formis99 and Formis2001 databases have been enormously useful in tracking down information in the Online Catalog.
• Ant Base (antbase.org) is the source of many of the pdf documents.
• Ant Web (www.antweb.org) is the source of most of the photographs.
• Gary Alpert, Harvard University, generously made available many of the color images.
• Stefan Cover has helped in numerous ways over the years. Thanks Stef!
• Lewis Deitz and Bob Blinn in the Dept. of Entomology, North Carolina State University.
• Marie Tarjan entered data into the Distribution Database that is the foundation for the distribution maps in the catalog.
• The Japanese Ant Database supplied some color images.