Nesting habits and colony composition of the hypogaeic army ant Dorylus (Dichthadia) laevigatus Fr. Smith

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 380-387

  Berghoff, S M ^a   Weissflog, A ^b   Linsenmair, K E ^a   Mohamed, M ^c   Maschwitz, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Army ants; Colony structure; Dorylus laevigatus; Hypogaeic; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

MALAYSIA;

DICHTHADIA; DICHTHADIA LAEVIGATUS; DORYLUS LAEVIGATUS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0036436885     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012662     Document Type: Article

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