[HTML][HTML] Systematics and diversity of Neotropical ants

F Fernandez, RJ Guerrero… - Revista Colombiana de …, 2021 - scielo.org.co
With a long history of more than 100 million years and about 14,000 described living
species, ants are one of the most important and well-known groups of insects in the world …

Army ants

DJC Kronauer - Encyclopedia of social insects, 2021 - Springer
The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising almost 160,000
described extant species with a true total of possibly over one million species. Most species …

[HTML][HTML] Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

ML Borowiec - ZooKeys, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The generic classification of the ant subfamily Dorylinae is revised, with the aim of facilitating
identification of easily-diagnosable monophyletic genera. The new classification is based on …

The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

SG Brady, BL Fisher, TR Schultz, PS Ward - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Army ants are dominant invertebrate predators in tropical and subtropical
terrestrial ecosystems. Their close relatives within the dorylomorph group of ants are also …

Anatomy and evolution of the head of Dorylus helvolus (Formicidae: Dorylinae): Patterns of sex‐ and caste‐limited traits in the sausagefly and the driver ant

BE Boudinot, OTD Moosdorf, RG Beutel… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ants are highly polyphenic Hymenoptera, with at least three distinct adult forms in the vast
majority of species. Their sexual dimorphism, however, is overlooked to the point of being a …

Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics

ML Borowiec - Systematic biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Army ants are a charismatic group of organisms characterized by a suite of morphological
and behavioral adaptations that includes obligate collective foraging, frequent colony …

[PDF][PDF] Taxonomía de Formicidae (Hymenoptera) para México

M Vásquez-Bolaños - Métodos en Ecología y Sistemática, 2015 - academia.edu
Taxonomía de Formicidae (Hymenoptera) para México. Page 1 Métodos en Ecología y
Sistemática Vol. 10(1): 1 ISSN impreso 1659-2182 ISSN digital 1659-3049 Abril 2015 Taxonomía …

Central American ants of the genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): six new species and keys to workers and males

BE Boudinot, TP Sumnicht, RMM Adams - Zootaxa, 2013 - biotaxa.org
Megalomyrmex Forel is a distinctive lineage of Neotropical ants, some of which are
specialized parasites or predators of the fungus-growing ants Attini. Here we review and key …

Map** continental Ecuadorian ant species

F Salazar, F Reyes-Bueno, D Sanmartin, DA Donoso - Sociobiology, 2015 - ojs3.uefs.br
Ecuador is considered a megadiverse country but information on the distribution and
conservation of its ant species is scarce and scattered through the literature. Here we review …

Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem-and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

LH Borysenko - bioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
A detailed study of the holotype of Sphecomyrma canadensis from Canadian amber led to
the conclusion that the specimen belongs to a genus here named Boltonimecia gen. nov …