The evolution of myrmicine ants: Phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-81

  Ward, Philip S ^a   Brady, Seán G ^b   Fisher, Brian L ^c   Schultz, Ted R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANERGATES; ANISOPHEIDOLE; ANKYLOMYRMA; APHAENOGASTER; ATTINI; CEPHALOTES; CHALEPOXENUS; CREMATOGASTRINI; EPELYSIDRIS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MACHOMYRMA; MESSOR; MONOMORIUM; MYRMICINAE; MYRMICINI; MYRMOXENUS; PHEIDOLE; POGONOMYRMEX; PROTOMOGNATHUS; RHOPTROMYRMEX; SOLENOPSIDINI; STENAMMINI; STRUMIGENYS; TATUIDRIS; TELEUTOMYRMEX; TEMNOTHORAX; TETRAMORIUM;

EID: 84920657414     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12090     Document Type: Article

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