Untangling complex morphological variation: Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Crematogaster (Oxygyne) in Madagascar, with insight into the evolution and biogeography of this enigmatic ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 240-260

  Blaimer, Bonnie B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOMARKER; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM; QUEEN; SOCIAL PARASITISM; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

MADAGASCAR;

CREMATOGASTER AGNETIS; CREMATOGASTER DESCARPENTRIESI; CREMATOGASTER EMMAE; CREMATOGASTER EMMAE LATICEPS; CREMATOGASTER INOPS; CREMATOGASTER MARTHAE; CREMATOGASTER RANAVALONAE; CREMATOGASTER RANAVALONAE PAULINAE; CREMATOGASTER RANAVALONAE PEPO; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 84859266257     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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