Synopsis and classification of Formicidae

By B. Bolton. 2003

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Citations in the corpus

• Species interactions and thermal constraints on ant community structure (2010, unknown): “Nomenclature follows Bolton (2003).”
• The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big‐eyed arboreal ants (2005, methodology): “These included characters newly developed for this study and others taken from Hashimoto (1991, 1996), Baroni Urbani et al. (1992), Ward (1994), Ward & Brady (2003) and Bolton (2003).”
• Primitive New Ants in Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2005, background): “COMMENTS: We have tentatively followed past authors in placing †Haidomyrmex within †Sphecomyrminae (e.g., Bolton, 2003).”
• Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages (2017, background): “…(DUBOIS 1998), Stigmatomma (DLUSSKY 2009, YOSHIMURA & FISHER 2012), Stigmomyrmex (MAYR 1868), Stiphromyrmex (WHEELER 1915), Temnothorax (MAYR 1868, WHEELER 1915, BOLTON 2003, DLUSSKY & RADCHENKO 2006a), Tetramorium (RADCHENKO & DLUSSKY 2015), Tetraponera (DLUSSKY 2009), Usomyrma (DLUSSKY & al.”
• The diversity and origin of exotic ants arriving in New Zealand via human‐mediated dispersal (2006, methodology): “The validity of species names was checked using Bolton (1995), and subfamily nomenclature follows Bolton (2003).”
• Nutritional and functional biology of exudate‐feeding ants (2006, background): “Among myrmicines, closely related Cataulacus and Cephalotes species (Bolton, 2003) harbour masses of bacteria in the posterior midgut and a dilated region of the anterior ileum (e.g., Caetano & Cruz-Landim, 1985; Caetano et al., 1994; Roche & Wheeler, 1997; Figure 1).”
• Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies (2008, background): “…compilation © 2008 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters • Zoologica Scripta, 37 , 5, September 2008, pp 539–560 543 subfamilies of Formicidae and Vespidae were included because the monophyly of each of these two families is firmly established (Carpenter 1986; Bolton 2003; Brady et al .”
• An update of the world survey of myrmecochorous dispersal distances (2013, background): “In this case, species of the genus Diacamma disperse over the longest distances (mean 1.93 m), and Pachycondyla is the genus with most distances measured (n 108). in previously postulated or novel subfamilies (Bolton 2003).”
• Ecological morphospace of New World ants (2006, methodology): “These genera represent 40 of the 42 New World tribes (lacking Lenomyrmecini and Leptanilloidini), 12 of 13 extant New World subfamilies, and five of six subfamily groups (Bolton, 2003).”
• A masterpiece of evolution – Oecophylla weaver ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2009, background): “However, given that there are no fossil Dendromyrmex (see BOLTON 2003) and that the sole Polyrhachis fossil is quite recent (Upper Mioncene; WAPPLER & al.”
• Contributions to the knowledge of Formicidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata): a new diagnosis of the family, the first global male-based key to subfamilies, and a treatment of early branching lineages (2015, methodology): “Characters indicated in the family diagnosis by Bolton (2003) and above will be valuable to evaluate for critical fossil taxa such as †Armania dlussky and other fossils assigned to the †Armaniidae whose relationship to the Formicidae is uncertain (see dlussky 1975: †Archaeopone, †Dolichomyrma,…”
• Assembly rules of ground‐foraging ant assemblages are contingent on disturbance, habitat and spatial scale (2007, unknown): “Nomenclature follows Bolton (1994, 2003).”
• Morphological patterns and community organization in leaf-litter ant assemblages (2010, unknown): “Taxonomy follows Bolton (2003).”