author(s)
Mbenoun Masse Paul Serge, Ebangue Titti Giovani and Ruth Mony

abstract
Terrestrial arthropods are particularly species rich in urban area due to a high degree of resource and microhabitat heterogeneity. Here, we investigated the community structure of ants and myriapods which occur in the urban habitats (house and garden) in the city of Yaoundé. Samples were collected in 2011 and 2017 in ten urban districts using baits and visual catch as sampling methods. A total of 836 occurrences in 53 species (32 species in house and 48 in garden), 26 genera and 12 families or subfamilies were identified. The most common species found in and out of human habitats were Pheidole megacephala (ant) and Haplothysanus chappellei (myriapod). Five species occurred in all part of house and in garden were known as ‘’Tramp species’’, Wasmannia auropunctata, P. megacephala, Monomorium pharaonis, Paratrechina longicornis and Haplothysanus chapellei, and noxious to human food conservation and cultivated fields.