Division of labor in the neotropical ant, Pachycondyla stigma (Ponerinae), with special reference to mutual antennal rubbing between nestmates (Hymenoptera)

Sociobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-24

  Oliveira, Paulo S ^a   Obermayer, Malu ^b   Hölldobler, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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