Body size is a key life-history trait influencing all aspects of an organism's biology. Ants
provide an interesting model for examining body-size variation because of the high degree …

Within the Formicidae, the higher classification of nearly all subfamilies has been recently
revised given the findings of molecular phylogenetics. Here, we integrate morphology and …

With their unique colony structure, competition between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
can be particularly intense, with colonies potentially willing to sacrifice large number of …

Stony corals (Scleractinia) form the basis for some of the most diverse ecosytems on Earth,
but we have much to learn about their evolutionary history and systematic relationships. In …

We explore the potential of x-ray micro computed tomography (μCT) for the field of ant
taxonomy by using it to enhance the descriptions of two remarkable new species of the ant …

New technologies for imaging and analysis of morphological characters offer opportunities
to enhance revisionary taxonomy and better integrate it with the rest of biology. In this study …

Food reserves and trophallaxis help insect colonies regulate brood development and
survive starvation events. Unlike wasps and bees, ants do not store food in external …

Morphological studies of insects can help us to understand the concomitant or sequential
functionality of complex structures and may be used to hypothetize distinct levels of …

Colobopsis sp. nrSA is an ant species of the Southeast Asian Colobopsis cylindrica group
(formerly in the genus Camponotus), which is currently being studied in the course of a long …

Several phragmotic species in the ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 with a cephalic
shield are known from the Old World, but species with an anteriorly truncated head seem to …