Mating flight, metrosis, and semi-claustrality in the seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex salinus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 92-96

  Anderson, K E ^a   Keyel, A C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Claustrality; Mating flight; Pleometrosis; Pogonomyrmex; Queen size

Indexed keywords

ANT; BODY SIZE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; QUEEN;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX SALINUS;

EID: 33644535156     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-005-0840-y     Document Type: Article

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