A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ant Morphology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Special Reference to the Poneromorph Subfamilies

Keller, Roberto A.

doi:10.1206/355.1

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“…Detailed diagnoses were given by Taylor (1965), Bolton (2003), Eguchi et al (2006), and Keller (2011). The material from Madagascar treated herein matches them almost perfectly with one exception.…”

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Taxonomic revision of the cryptic ant genus Probolomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Proceratiinae) in Madagascar

Garcia¹,

Fisher²

2014

DEZ

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The alpha taxonomy of the ant genus Probolomyrmex in Madagascar is revised on the basis of the worker caste. Two new species are described: P. curculiformis sp. n. and P. zahamena sp. n. and the previously known P. tani is re-described. All three species are members of the P. greavesi species group. The species descriptions include diagnoses, taxonomic discussions, high quality montage images, and distribution maps. In addition, we provide an illustrated species level identification key.

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Section: Hlsupporting

confidence: 59%

Taxonomic revision of the cryptic ant genus Probolomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Proceratiinae) in Madagascar

Garcia¹,

Fisher²

2014

DEZ

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“…Ants are among the most complex and social invertebrate animals as for their morphology, their physiology, their social organization and their behaviors. They are among the most morphologically evolved hymenoptera, having indeed a unique resting position of their labium, mandibles and maxilla (Keller, 2011), as well as a lot of glands emitting numerous, efficient pheromones (Billen & Morgan, 1998). Their societies are highly organized with a strong division of labor, an age-based polyethism and a social regulation (Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

Potential Harmful Effects of Carbamazepine on Aquatic Organisms, A Study Using Ants as Invertebrate Models

Cammaerts¹,

Cammaerts²,

Rachidi³

2015

IJB

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One of the most common pharmaceutical substances present in natural water is carbamazepine, a drug given to persons suffering from epilepsies or pain in their cerebral nervous system, and eliminated intact by the kidneys through sewage systems into rivers. This substance may affect macroinvertebrates and vertebrates depending on watercourses. We thus studied its physiological and ethological effects on ants used as biological models. Carbamazepine decreased the ants' speed of locomotion, increasing so their sinuosity of movement. It decreased the precision of their reaction, their 'audacity', their research activity for food, their cognitive ability in navigating through chicanes, and slightly reduced their olfactory perception. It did not impact their response to pheromones, their brood caring behavior, and their visual perception. It somewhat reduced their tactile perception, induced aggressiveness between congeners while slightly reducing that towards aliens. Carbamazepine largely increased the ants' ability in acquiring visual and olfactory conditioning, as well as their visual and olfactory memory. Ants never developed dependence on, or habituation to, that drug consumption. After its consumption ended, the effects of carbamazepine vanished in 20 hrs (for the linear speed), 26 hrs (for the sinuosity), and 32 hrs (for the orientation towards an alarm signal). These different physiological and ethological effects, revealed on ants, may occur for persons consuming that drug, and for living organisms depending on natural water contaminated by that drug. Attention should so be paid, as for these effects, to persons cared of with carbamazepine, and improved systems of depuration should be set up for eliminating that drug (as well as several other pharmaceutical pollutant substances) from the (yet not sufficiently) treated waste waters.

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“…In order to make this work more accessible, terminology largely follows the generalized hymenopteran set of Goulet & Huber (1993), with clarifications for taxon-specific terms. Those terms unique to Formicidae stem from Hölldobler & Wilson (1990) and Bolton (1994), and many pertinent to this work are well-illustrated in the works of Keller (2011) and Yoshimura & Fisher (2011).…”

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confidence: 89%

New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber

McKellar¹,

Glasier²,

Engel³

2013

Bull. Geosci.

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A new genus and species are described within the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Formicidae). Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis gen. et sp. nov. McKellar, Glasier & Engel provides a solid example of Dolichoderinae within the Campanian Grassy Lake amber of southern Alberta (Late Cretaceous, 78-79 Ma). The new species fills a void in the dolichoderine fossil record left by Eotapinoma canadensis Dlussky, a putative dolichoderine whose taxonomic placement has been questioned, and whose type material has been lost. As such, C. medicinehatensis provides a constraint for divergence times of the subfamily and Leptomyrmecini, one of its recently resurrected tribes. This discovery greatly extends the proposed divergence time for Dolichoderinae, and likely Leptomyrmecini, to more than 78 Ma -contrary to some of the more recent estimates inferred from molecular phylogenies.•

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A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ant Morphology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Special Reference to the Poneromorph Subfamilies

Cited by 114 publications

References 147 publications

Taxonomic revision of the cryptic ant genus Probolomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Proceratiinae) in Madagascar

Taxonomic revision of the cryptic ant genus Probolomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Proceratiinae) in Madagascar

Potential Harmful Effects of Carbamazepine on Aquatic Organisms, A Study Using Ants as Invertebrate Models

New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber

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