Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhahiting ants

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 451-540

  Ward, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Ant plant mutualisms; Coccoidea; Hylaea; Myrmecophytes; Neotropics; Phylogeny; Pleistocene refugia; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CAESALPINIOIDEAE; COCCOIDEA; CORDIA; COUSSAPOA; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYLAEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; OCOTEA; POLYGONACEAE; PSEUDOBOMBAX; PSEUDOMYRMEX KUENCKELI; PSEUDOMYRMEX VIDUUS; PTEROCARPUS; SAPIUM; TACHIGALI; TRIPLARIS;

EID: 0033413001     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb00157.x     Document Type: Article

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