Revision of the Middle American clade of the ant genus Stenamma Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae)

ZooKeys

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-277

  Branstetter, Michael G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central America; Cloud forest; Cryptic ants; Neotropics; Stenammini; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LAMA (MAMMAL); MYRMICINAE; STENAMMA; STENAMMA DIVERSUM; STENAMMA EXPOLITUM; STENAMMA FELIXI; STENAMMA HUACHUCANUM; STENAMMA MANNI; STENAMMA SCHMIDTI; STENAMMINI;

EID: 84878370459     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.295.4905     Document Type: Article

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