Morphological differences among three female castes: Worker, queen and intermorphic queen in the ant Myrmecina nipponica (Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 363-374

  Miyazaki, Satoshi ^a   Murakami, Takahiro ^b   Azuma, Noriko ^a   Higashi, Seigo ^a   Miura, Toru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ant; Caste; Formicidae; Intermorphic queen; Morphological differences; Myrmecina nipponica; Myrmicinae

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MYRMECINA; MYRMECINA NIPPONICA; MYRMICINAE;

EID: 25444437256     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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