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Revealing male genital morphology in the giant ant genus Dinoponera with geometric morphometrics by Tozetto, Leonardo, Lattke, John E.

“…Genitalia include some of the most complex and morphologically diverse structures in insects, finding extensive use in taxonomy, but ant taxonomy is female…”
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Army ant males lose seasonality at a site on the equator by Tozetto, Leonardo, Forrister, Dale L., Duval, Megan, Hays, Tobias, Garwood, Nancy C., Castro, Ronald Vargas, Lattke, John E., Sendoya, Sebastian, Longino, John T.

“…Army ants are keystone predators in the tropics and subtropics. During reproduction, males fly between colonies to mate with unmated, wingless queens. The…”
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Deep time extinction of largest insular ant predators and the first fossil Neoponera (Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Miocene age Dominican amber by Fiorentino, Gianpiero, Lattke, John, Troya, Adrian, Sosiak, Christine, Dong, Minsoo, Barden, Phillip

“…Ponerine ants are almost exclusively predatory and comprise many of the largest known ant species. Within this clade, the genus Neoponera is among the most…”
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Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in subterranean natural cavities of Minas Gerais, Brazil by Ladino, Natalia, M. Feitosa, Rodrigo, de Almeida Zampaulo, Robson, Lattke, John E.

“…A list of ant species collected in caves at different localities of Minas Gerais state, Brazil is presented, based on specimens deposited in the Entomological…”
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Morphological and genetic evidence supports the separation of two Tapinoma ants (Formicidae, Dolichoderinae) from the Atlantic Forest biome by Escárraga, Mayron E, Lattke, John E, Pie, Marcio R, Guerrero, Roberto J

“…The taxonomic boundaries of many Neotropical ant species of the genus are still unclear. and are two morphologically similar taxa which occur sympatrically in…”
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Review of the Leptogenys unistimulosa species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with the description of a new Amazonian species by Tozetto, Leonardo, Chaul, Júlio C M, Boudinot, Brendon E, Lattke, John E

“…Leptogenys elzasoaresnew species, is described from workers and a male collected near Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon. The worker is recognizable by the…”
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A new species and new records of minuta-group Gnamptogenys from Brazil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Dias, Amanda M., Lattke, John E.

“…We report new records of Gnamptogenys caelata Kempf (1967) and Gnamptogenys minuta (Emery, 1896) from Brazil. We also describe Gnamptogenys piei n. sp. from…”
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A new species of the Gnamptogenys Mordax subgroup (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with an Identification key to the species within the subgroup by Frederico S. R. Marcineiro, John Lattke

“…Abstract We describe, Gnamptogenys rugimala n. sp, a very distinct new species of the ectatommine genus Gnamptogenys, from specimens collected in forests of…”
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Predation and patchiness in the tropical litter: do swarm-raiding army ants skim the cream or drain the bottle? by Kaspari, Michael, Powell, Scott, Lattke, John, O'Donnell, Sean

“…1. Swarm-raiding army ants have long been considered as episodic, catastrophic agents of disturbance in the tropical litter, but few quantitative data exist on…”
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Ants of the genus Protalaridris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), more than just deadly mandibles by LATTKE, John E., DELSINNE, Thibaut, ALPERT, Gary D., GUERRERO, Roberto J.

“…The ants of the genus Protalaridris are revised based upon their morphology. Seven species are recognized; the type species (P. armata Brown, 1980) and six…”
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Taxonomy and Natural History of Strumigenys thaxteri Wheeler and Strumigenys reticeps (Kempf) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Lattke, John E, Silva, Thiago S R da, Delsinne, Thibaut

“…We report finding Strumigenys thaxteri Wheeler in the Amazonian foothills of southeastern Ecuador, over 2000 km to the west of previously known records for the…”
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Army ants in four forests: geographic variation in raid rates and species composition by O'DONNELL, SEAN, LATTKE, JOHN, POWELL, SCOTT, KASPARI, MICHAEL

“…1. The New World army ants are top predators in the litter of tropical forest, but no comprehensive studies exist on variation in assemblage-wide activity and…”
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New haidomyrmecine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar by Lattke, John E., Melo, Gabriel A.R.

“…Three new species and a new genus of “hell ants” (Haidomyrmecinae) are described from Cenomanian Burmese amber. Ceratomyrmex planus sp. nov. is the second…”
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Discovery of the Dinoponera lucida male (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a threatened giant ant from the Atlantic rain forest by Escárraga, Mayron E, Lattke, John E, Azevedo, Celso O

“…The male of the endangered ant Dinoponera lucida Emery is described, providing morphometric measurements, high-resolution images, and a distribution map of the…”
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Leptogenys pujoli, a new amazonian species, and the redescription of Leptogenys famelica Emery, 1896 (Formicidae: Ponerinae) by Joshua Pablo Cavalcanti, John Edwin Lattke

“…ABSTRACT We provide an update on the famelica species group, redescribing Leptogenys famelica Emery, 1896 and describing a new species, Leptogenys pujoli n…”
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A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records by Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John, Rabeling, Christian

“…The non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants deposited in two entomological collections in Colombia were curated and identified to assess their diversity in the…”
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Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants by Jenkins, Clinton N., Sanders, Nathan J., Andersen, Alan N., Arnan, Xavier, Brühl, Carsten A., Cerda, Xim, Ellison, Aaron M., Fisher, Brian L., Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Gove, Aaron D., Guénard, Benoit, Lattke, John E., Lessard, Jean-Philippe, McGlynn, Terrence P., Menke, Sean B., Parr, Catherine L., Philpott, Stacy M., Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Weiser, Michael D., Dunn, Robert R.

“…Aim To use a fine-grained global model of ant diversity to identify the limits of our knowledge of diversity in the context of climate change. Location Global…”
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Odontomachus davidsoni sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a new conspicuous trap-jaw ant from Ecuador by Hoenle, Philipp O, Lattke, John E, Donoso, David A, Beeren, Christoph von, Heethoff, Michael, Schmelzle, Sebastian, Argoti, Adriana, Camacho, Luis, Ströbel, Bernhard, Blüthgen, Nico

“…One of the largest species in its genus, Odontomachus davidsoni Hoenle, Lattke & Donoso, sp. nov. is described from workers and queens collected at lowland…”
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Large ants are not easy – the taxonomy of Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) by Dias, Amanda Martins, Lattke, John Edwin

“…The taxonomy of the giant ants of the genus Dinoponera is revised based on female and male morphology. Eight species are recognized. Dinoponera nicinha sp…”
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Three new species of the genus Gnamptogenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from southern China with a key to the known Chinese species by Chen, Zhilin, Lattke, John E, Shi, Fuming, Zhou, Shanyi

“…Three new species of the genus Gnamptogenys Roger, 1863 are described from southern China: Gnamptogenys dentihumera Chen, Lattke & Zhou, sp. n. , Gnamptogenys…”
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