Abstract
Ants represents between 10 to 15% of the animal biomass in terrestrial environment. The Brazilian cerrado has a great diversity of ants when compared with other savannas of the rest of the world. The ants Camponotus rufipes and Camponotus renggeri belong to the same subgenera Myrmothryx and they are among the most abundant ants of the cerrado. Both species are important in food webs in th…