page_title: List of ants of Australia
section_title: Aphaenogaster
hierarchical_section_title: List of ants of Australia / Aphaenogaster
caption_attribution_description: Aphaenogaster longiceps show a preference for nesting in sandy soils. This worker is carrying a clump of sand that has been removed from the nest.
context_page_description: The ant fauna of Australia is large and diverse. As of 1999, Australia and its external territories represent 1,275 described taxa divided into 103 genera and 10 subfamilies. No publication since 1999 has estimated the current diversity of Australia's ant fauna, although it has considerably increased in size as the total amount of subfamilies in Australia today is around twelve. Very few species in the country are known to be invasive.
  Australia is home to two-thirds of the worlds subfamilies, one-third of known genera, 15% of all described species, and some genera found in Australia can be found nowhere else or they are found in neighboring countries instead. Australia's ant diversity is smaller than Central America, South America and Southeast Asia, it has roughly the same number of genera and species as the Orient and surpasses the amount of ants known in Europe, North America, Northern Asia and Northern Africa. The state of Queensland has the greatest diversity of ants in the world, with more than 1,400 species known within its borders. The total amount of species known in Australia could possibly be over 6,500, with only one in five ants being described.
context_section_description: Aphaenogaster barbara Shattuck, 2008
  Aphaenogaster barbigula Wheeler, 1916 – Desert funnel ant
  Aphaenogaster kimberleyensis Shattuck, 2008
  Aphaenogaster longiceps (Smith, 1858) – Forest funnel ant
  Aphaenogaster mediterrae Shattuck, 2008
  Aphaenogaster poultoni Crawley, 1922
  Aphaenogaster pythia Forel, 1915
  Aphaenogaster reichelae Shattuck, 2008
caption: Aphaenogaster longiceps
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