High species turnover of the ant genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) along an altitudinal gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes, indicated by a combined DNA sequencing and morphological approach

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 457-469

  Delsinne, Thibaut ^a   Sonet, Gontran ^a   Nagy, Zoltán T ^a   Wauters, Nina ^a   Jacquemin, Justine ^a   Leponce, Maurice ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ANT; COMPLEMENTARITY; DIVERGENCE; ELEVATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; SEA ICE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY; TURNOVER;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

EID: 84883350550     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS12030     Document Type: Article

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