Invertebrate biodiversity (ants, bees, and others) associated with stem domatia of the Indian myrmecophyte Humboldtia brunonis Wallich (Magnoliophyta: Fabaceae)

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-79

  Rickson, Fred R ^a   Rickson, Melinda M ^a   Ghorpade, Kumar ^a   Norden, Beth B ^b   Krombein, Karl V ^b  

^a Smithsonian Institution ^*  (India)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Braunsapis; Humboldtia brunonis; Humboldtia laurifolia; India; Mutualism; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; APOIDEA; BRAUNSAPIS; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HUMBOLDTIA; HUMBOLDTIA BRUNONIS; HUMBOLDTIA LAURIFOLIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037692926     PISSN: 00138797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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