Cryptic diversity in the Mediterranean Temnothorax lichtensteini species complex (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-88

  Csősz, Sándor ^a   Seifert, Bernhard ^b   Müller, Benedikt ^c   Trindl, Andreas ^c   Schulz, Andreas ^d   Heinze, Jürgen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cryptic species; Exploratory data analysis; Integrative taxonomy; Morphometrics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANT; CRYPSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DIVERGENCE; ENTOMOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES COMPLEX; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; TEMNOTHORAX; TEMNOTHORAX LICHTENSTEINI;

EID: 84896403664     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-013-0153-3     Document Type: Article

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