New species and new records of scuttle flies (diptera: Phoridae) that parasitize leaf-cutter and army ants (hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 601-631

  Disney, R Henry L ^a   Elizalde, Luciana ^b   Folgarait, Patricia J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Army ants; Ecuador; New species; Parasitoid; Phoridae

Indexed keywords

CREMERSIA; DACNOPHORA; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MYRMOSICARIUS; NEODOHRNIPHORA; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON (DIPTERAN FLY);

EID: 70349442515     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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