A review of the new world ants of the subgenus Myrafant, (Genus Leptothorax) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 265-434

  Mackay, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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