From subarctic tundra to equatorial rainforest, deep in the soil
and at the tip of the highest tree, ants are found the world over.
This book, by the world's leading ant taxonomist, offers a
definitive guide for identifying these ubiquitous insects.
Barry Bolton provides identification keys to all the living ant
subfamilies and genera, presented in alphabetical order and
separated by zoogeographical region. Designed for professional and
amateur myrmecologists alike, this guide is as accessible as it is
comprehensive, including information on the function and use of
identification keys, instructions for preparing specimens for
examination, and an illustrated glossary of morphological terms.
Over 500 scanning electron microscope photographs illustrate the
taxonomic keys.
Bolton introduces each subfamily with a diagnosis of the group,
followed by synoptic classifications of all genera within each
subfamily, notes on broad distribution, and a list of references to
all species-rank publications useful to identification. He also
provides a short summary of the extinct subfamilies and includes a
checklist of every name ever proposed in the classification of
ants, from the rank of family down to subgenus, showing the current
status and usage of each.
An updated and exhaustively expanded revision of the taxonomic
keys found in Hö lldobler and Wilson's "The Ants," Bolton's
identification guide takes its place alongside that landmark work
as the foundation for the study of ants for many years to come.
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