Ants, with some 15,000 estimated species in all over the world, form a large group of animals that are dominant in most terrestrial ecosystems and important in the study of evolutionary biology because of the high expression of their social behavior.

• 估计全世界的蚂蚁种类有15,000种,它们形成一个庞大的动物群体,在陆地生态系统中占有优势地位,而且,蚂蚁体现出高度的社会行为,使的其在进化生物学研究中具有相当重要的位置。