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Largest ant

Giant ant (Formicium giganteum) was 1 to 3 cm long, 5.5 cm queens. but lived 46 million years ago. The largest living ants are the driver ants (Dorylinae) (Also called male Siafu ants ant or Safari). The queen can grow to 5 inches, but the the male reproductive Also called sausage fly is 2.5 cm long. There are quite a few people who think it is the Gi-ant ... More

• Antbase.org, dorylinae
• Wikipedia, Dorylus
• World's Largest Ant , Educateearth, 'Nova' 2007

Smallest ant

The Australian ant Carebara (Oligomyrmex) is 1 mm long, but the minor workers are smaller: 0.75 mm. These ants are at least the smalles ants in Japan. Also Leptanilla revelierii is very small. But not that small.

• Guardian.co.uk Leptanilla revelierii
• There are 262 species of ants in Japan , Gakkens photo encyclopedia
• Myrmicinae Genus : Carebara, Antweb.org, 2009