Some Records of Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from District Poonch, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

FARZANA AFSAR; MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE KHAN; ZAHID MAHMOOD SARWAR; AHMAD ZIA; QUDRAT ULLAH; MUHAMMAD QASIM; NAZEER AHMED; SUMARA ASLAM; MUHAMMAD ATHER RAFI; MUHAMMAD KAMAL SHEIKH; ADNAN SAMEI

doi:10.57038/usjas.v6i04.5837

FARZANA AFSAR Department of Entomology, University of the Poonch, Rawalakot, Azad Jammu & Kashmir
MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE KHAN Department of Entomology, University of the Poonch, Rawalakot, Azad Jammu & Kashmir
ZAHID MAHMOOD SARWAR Department of Entomology, Bahauddin Univesity Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab
AHMAD ZIA National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad.
QUDRAT ULLAH Department of Zoology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar.
MUHAMMAD QASIM Department of Zoology, Kohsar University Murree, 47150 Punjab, Pakistan
NAZEER AHMED Department of Entomology, University of Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
SUMARA ASLAM National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad.
MUHAMMAD ATHER RAFI National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad.
MUHAMMAD KAMAL SHEIKH Planning and Development Division, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad
ADNAN SAMEI Department of Zoology, Islamia College University, Peshawar.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.57038/usjas.v6i04.5837

Keywords: Ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Poonch, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Abstract

In the present study 12 species belonging to 10 genera of three subfamilies namely; Formicinae, Myrmicinae and Ponerinae under family Formicidae are reported from district Poonch, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Among the recorded species, six species belonging to Formicinae, four in Myrmicinae, and two species in Ponerinae. All the 12 species are reported first time for district Poonch, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. however, only one species namely, Odontoponera transversa (Smith, 1857) of subfamily Ponerinae is new record from Pakistan.