North American Leptothorax of the Nitens-Carinatus Complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)1

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

Description of the female and male of Mycetarotes carinatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

We describe the female and male of the Neotropical fungus-growing ant Mycerarotes carinatus, hitherto only known from type locality, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, based on samples of workers. The sexual forms were obtained from a nest maintained in the laboratory. The samples found in Minas Gerais state, expand the geographic distribution of the species. We illustrate the external architecture ...

North American species of Agrostocynips Diaz (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), parasitoids of Agromyzidae (Diptera): bionomics and taxonomy

The genus Agrostocynips Diaz is redescribed, as well as two species endemic to the Nearctic: Agrostocynips diastrophi (Ashmead) and A. robusta (Ashmead). Previous to this study, only Neotropical species of Agrostocynips were well diagnosed both taxonomically and biologically. Agrostocynips belongs to the Zaeucoila group of genera, which are Neotropical eucoilines that principally parasitize Agr...

Identification and Nesting Sites of North American Species of Dolichoderus Lund (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

The identification of North American Dolichoderus species by-way-of existing keys is unnecessarily arbitrary and misdeterminations are likely between D. mariae and D. pustulatus, the lat ter species showing most morphological variation over i t s range. Diagnoses for the four described species and an undescribed form with a revised key and figures are given to aid entomologists working without ...

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