An overview of the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the state of Maranhão, Brazil

Abstract The state of Maranhão, located in northeastern Brazil, comprises three biomes: Amazonian, Caatinga, and the Cerrado. To date, 99 ant species have been recorded in the literature from the state. In the present work, we provide for the first time a profile of the ant fauna in the state based...

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Main Authors: Lívia Pires do Prado, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa, Stefania Pinzón Triana, Jhonatan Andrés Muñoz Gutiérrez, Guillaume Xavier Rousseau, Raimunda Alves Silva, Glécio Machado Siqueira, Ciro Líbio Caldas dos Santos, Francisco Veras Silva, Thiago Sanches Ranzani da Silva, Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira, Rogério Rosa da Silva, Joudellys Andrade-Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo
Series:Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0031-10492019000100238&lng=en&tlng=en