Bioecology and chemical diversity of abdominal glands in the iranian samsum ant Pachycondyla sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae)
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BIOECOLOGY AND CHEMICAL DIVERSITY OF ABDOMINAL GLANDS IN THE IRANIAN SAMSUM ANT Pachycondyla sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae)
The genus Pachycondyla is a large group of ants in the Ponerini tribe, known mostly from tropical and subtropical regions. Pachycondyla sennaarensis, the so-called Samsum ant in the Middle East, is distributed throughout the African tropics, Arabian Peninsula and Iran, where it is responsible for many cases of insectinduced dermal lesions and systemic reactions in humans. Populations of P. senn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1678-9199
DOI: 10.1590/s1678-91992009000300012