Lin has spent more than ten years in the field building on this foundation and has increased the number of known species to 276. He has also collected specimens of 90-some species which had previously been identified but not collected.
在這個基礎上，林宗岐又歷經十多年的田野採集，將紀錄推進到 276 種，並陸續補起了早期有紀錄但是缺乏標本的九十幾種螞蟻。