Aggressive behaviour of the two European Argentine ant supercolonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) towards displaced native ant species of the northeastern Iberian Peninsula

Myrmecological News

Volumn 14, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-106

  Abril, Sílvia ^a   Gó me, Crisanto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Competitive Ability; Lasius Cinereus; Linepithema Humile; Pheidole Pallidula; Tapinoma

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LASIUS CINEREUS; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; PHEIDOLE PALLIDULA; TAPINOMA; TAPINOMA NIGERRIMUM;

EID: 78649600720     PISSN: 19944136     EISSN: 19973500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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