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An Identification Guide to Ant Genera of the World

By Barry Bolton

Published by Harvard in 1994 – unread, internally as new – minor shelfwear - taken out of the publishers wrap to list – issued without a DJ

From subarctic tundra to equatorial rainforest, deep in the soil and at the tip of the highest tree, ants are found the world over. This book, by the world’s leading ant taxonomist, offers a definitive guide for identifying these ubiquitous insects.

Barry Bolton provides identification keys to all the living ant subfamilies and genera, presented in alphabetical order and separated by zoogeographical region. Designed for professional and amateur myrmecologists alike, this guide is as accessible as it is comprehensive, including information on the function and use of identification keys, instructions for preparing specimens for examination, and an illustrated glossary of morphological terms. Over 500 scanning electron microscope photographs illustrate the taxonomic keys.

Bolton introduces each subfamily with a diagnosis of the group, followed by synoptic classifications of all genera within each subfamily, notes on broad distribution, and a list of references to all species-rank publications useful to identification. He also provides a short summary of the extinct subfamilies and includes a checklist of every name ever proposed in the classification of ants, from the rank of family down to subgenus, showing the current status and usage of each.

An updated and exhaustively expanded revision of the taxonomic keys found in Hölldobler and Wilson’s The Ants, Bolton’s identification guide takes its place alongside that landmark work as the foundation for the study of ants for many years to come

Contents -

Introduction

Problems of Classification

Outline of Zoogeography

Preparation of Specimens

Organization and Use of the Book

The Family Formicidae

Diagnosis of the Family Formicidae

The Extant Subfamilies

Key to Subfamilies Based on External Morphology

New Format Key in Subfamilies

Subfamily Aenictinae

Subfamily Aenictogitoninae

Subfamily Aneuretinae

Subfamily Apomyrminae

Subfamily Cerapachyinae

Subfamily Dolichoderinae

Subfamily Dorylinae

Subfamily Ecitoninae

Subfamily Formicinae

Subfamily Leptanillinae

Subfamily Leptanillodinae

Subfamily Myrmeciinae

Subfamily Myrmicinae

Subfamily Nothomyrmeciinae

Subfamily Ponerinae

Subfamily Psuedomyrmecinae

The Extinct Subfamilies

Subfamily Armaniinae

Subfamily Formiciinae

Subfamily Sphecomyrminae

Subfamily Paleosminteurinae

References to Faunistic Studies

Glossary of Morphological Terms

Bibliography

Index and Checklist

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