New species, new genera, and new records of myrmecophiles associated with army ants (Aenictus sp.) with the description of a new subtribe of staphylinidae (Coleoptera; Formicidae: Aenictinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-218

  Kistner, David H ^a   Weissflog, Andreas ^b   Rosciszewski K ^c   Maschwitz, Ulrich ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Staatliches Mus Naturkunde K   (Germany)

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