Black garden ant was observed in soil sample through foldscope and also showed taxonomic classification of black garden ant with date, site and time of collection. The family name Formicidae is derived from the
Latin
formīca
(“ant”) (Simpson 1979) from which the words in other
Romance languages
, such as the Portuguese
formiga
, Italian
formica
, Spanish
hormiga
, Romanian
furnică
, and French
fourmi
are derived. It has been hypothesised that a
Proto-Indo-European
word *morwi- was used, cf.
Sanskrit
vamrah, Latin formīca,
Greek
μύρμηξ
mýrmēx
,
Old Church Slavonic
mraviji
,
Old Irish
moirb
,
Old Norse
maurr
,
Dutch
mier
.
Ants
are
eusocial
insects
of the
family
Formicidae
and, along with the related
wasps
and
bees
, belong to the
order
Hymenoptera
.
