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ANT

            KINGDOM   : ANIMALIA

            PHYLUM     : ARTHROPODA

            CLASS          : INSECTA

            ORDER         : HYMENOPTERA

            FAMILY        : FORMICIDAE

            SUBFAMILY: DOLICHODERINAE

            GENUS         : IRIDOMYRMEX

            SPESIES       : PURPUREUS
   
      Ants are all insects belonging to the Formicidae tribe,the Hymenoptera Nation.ants have more than 12.00 species,most of which live in the tropics.Most ants are known as social insects,with regular colonies and nests of thousands of ants per colony.Despite its relatively small size,ants are among the strongest animals in the world.Male ants can support a weight of fifty times their own body weight,compared to an elephant that is only able to carry a weight twice its own weight .The ant is only rivaled by the rhinoceros beetle that is able to support a weight weighing 850 times is own body weight.

• Type

      Some types of ants are very well known by humans because they live together with humans with humans,such as black ants,large ants,red ants,fire ants,and rangrang ants.

       Termites are sometimes called white ants but they are completely different groups of ants even though they have the same social structure

• Morphology       

       Ants are distinct in their morphology from other insects in having elbowed antennae,metapleural glands,and a strong constriction of their second abdominal segment into a node-like petiole.The head,mesosoma,and metasoma are the three distinct body segments.The petiople forms a narrow waist between their mesosoma and gaster.The patiole may be formed by one or two nodes(the second alone,or the second and third abdominal segments).

•  Life cycle