New ponerine ants from Equatorial Africa

Title Variants

Alternative: New ponerine ants from Africa

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 1398

By

Weber, Neal A. (Neal Albert)

Central African Expedition Of The American Museum Of Natural History 1947-1948

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, American Museum of Natural History, [1949]

Notes

Title from caption.

"January 25, 1949."

Holotype specimens collected from locations in Kenya, Uganda, Congo (Democratic Republic) and Central African Republic during the 1947-1948 Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History.

"Descriptions of new species of the genera Discothyrea, Probolomyrmex, Centromyrmex, and Asphinctopone ... rare, archaic relicts ... the blind Centromyrmex has striking adaptations for locomotion in subterranean termite nests and for preying on these insects."

Subjects

59.57,96P(67) , Africa, Central , Ants , Classification , Insects , Kenya , Ponerini , Uganda

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.1398, 1949

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 31838074