Henny Herwina, Rijal Satria, Yaherwandi, Yositaka Sakamaki, Mairawita, Diyona Putri, Ahmad Efendi, Yusuke Kusuhata, Muhammad N. Janra
A long period of ant sampling has been conducted in Biological Education and Research Forest (BERF), Universitas Andalas, West Sumatra, Indonesia by deploying several methods i.e. direct hand collection in rotten logs, at flowering plants and at bird nests, Quadra Protocol for sampling diurnal and nocturnal ground ants and subterranean trap for soil ants. A total of 100 ant species which taxonomically grouped into 41 genera, 15 tribes and eight subfamilies resulted from this study. Myrmicinae became subfamily with the most species recorded (46 species), after the Formicinae with 28 species and Ponerinae with 11 species. On the other hand, the rest subfamilies were represented with less species e.g. Dolichoderinae (6 species), Dorylinae (3 species), Pseudomyrmicinae (3 species), Ectatommine (2 species) and Ambliponinae (1 species). Pheidole was genus with the most species recorded (17 species) followed by Crematogaster (7 species) and Polyrhachis (6 species). Quadra Protocol became the most effective method to record ant species in this study (42 species), subsequently followed by purposive hand collection method (40 species), subterranean trap (10 species), direct collection in rotten logs (8 species), observation at flowering plants (8 species) or collection from within bird nests (4 species). Despite the robustness of inventory produced from this study, it is indicated that BERF area still holds more ant species that are not recorded by research done so far. © 2021 Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences. All Rights Reserved.
Animal Taxonomy Laboratory, Biology Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Universitas Andalas, Indonesia; Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, Padang, 25131, Indonesia; Department of Pests and Plant Diseases, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Andalas, West Sumatra, 25163, Indonesia; Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, Korimoto 1-12-24, Kagoshima, 890-0065, Japan; Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
