"Ants of Africa and Madagascar: a Guide to the Genera" is a really great ant book even if you don't often see African ants. Of course reading about them is fun, but it's a really recent and clearly illustrated and organized book.
It also has the BEST glossary of any ant book in my collection. The "Glossary of Morphological Terms" is like a secret decoder ring for reading scientific papers about ants. The authors assume you know nothing about ants and explain each term from the ground up.
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