Pheidole in the New World

A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus

Edward O. Wilson

    Introduction

    The Origins of Hyperdiversity

    Glossary and Anatomy

    Keys

    The Workerless Social Parasites of the New World Pheidole, Based on the Queen

    The Species Groups of the Nonparasitic New World Pheidole, Based on the Worker Castes

    The aberrans Group

    The biconstricta Group

    The crassicornis Group

    The diligens Group

    The distorta Group

    The fallax Group

    The flavens Group

    The gertrudae Group

    The granulata Group

    The lamia Group

    The megacephala Group

    The perpusilla Group

    The pilifera Group

    The punctatissima Group

    The scrobifera Group

    The tachigaliae Group

    The teneriffana Group

    The transversostriata Group

    The tristis Group

    The New World Species

    Indeterminate Names

    References

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: <i>Pheidole</i> in the New World
  • A photo of the author

Author photo: by Jon Chase/Harvard 1996

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.