Predatory behavior of the African ponerine ant Platythyrea modesta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3 A, 2001, Pages 303-315

  Djiéto Lordon, Champlain ^a   Orivel, Jérôme ^b   Dejean, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

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