Two new species of socially parasitic Nylanderia ants from the southeastern United States

In ants, social parasitism is an umbrella term describing a variety of life-history strategies, where a parasitic species depends entirely on a free-living species, for part of or its entire life-cycle, for either colony founding, survival, and/or reproduction. The highly specialized...

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Main Authors: Steven J. Messer, Stefan P. Cover, Christian Rabeling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020-03-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/46921/download/pdf/