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| Agosti, D.. The ant (Hymenoptera: Formicdae) types in Argentine collections. J. New York Ent. Soc. (in press) | X | X |
| Agosti, D.. Two new enigmatic species of the Australian ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. New York Ent. Soc. (in press) | X | X |
| Agosti, D., C. Austin, O.A. Gökçen, W.A. König, E.D. Morgan, E.D. Scott, and R. Wehner. 1996. (S)-2-Methyl-1-hexanol, characteristic mandibular gland substance of ants in the Cataglyphis bicolor group. Chemoecology 7: 57-60. | X | X |
| Agosti, D., D. Jacobs and R. DeSalle. 1996. On combining protein sequences and nucleic acid sequences in phylogenetic analysis: The homeobox proteincase. Cladistics 11: 211-221. | X | X |
| Allard, M. W. and J. M. Carpenter 1996. A rational choice for character weighting in parsimony analyses of eutherian mammal orders. In Nei, M. and N. Takahata (eds.), Current Topics on Molecular Evolution: 53- 60. Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, and Graduate School for Advanced Studies, Hayama. | X | X |
| Allard, M. W. and J. M. Carpenter 1997 (1996). On weighting and congruence. Cladistics 12: 183-198. | X | X |
| Baker, R. and R. DeSalle. 1997. Multiple data sets and the phylogeny of Hawaiian Drosophilidae. Syst Biol (in press). | X | X |
| Birstein, V. and R. DeSalle. 1997. Molecular phylogeny of the Acipenserinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (in press) | X | X |
| Birstein, V., J. Betts and R. DeSalle. 1997. Conservation genetics of Acipenser sturio - the European sturgeon. Biological Conservation (in press). | X | X |
| Birstein, V., R. Hanner and R. DeSalle. 1997. Phylogeny of the Acipenseriformes: cytogenetic and molecular approaches. Environ. Biol Fishes 48: 127-155. | X | X |
| Brandão, C. R. F., J. L. M. Diniz, D. Agosti and J. Delabie. Revision of the Neotropical ant subfamily Leptanilloidinae. Systematic Entomology (in press) | X | X |
| Brower, A. V. Z.. 1997. The evolution of ecologically important characters in Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): a cladistic review. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119: 457-472. | X | X |
| Brower, A.V.Z., R. DeSalle, and A. P. Vogler. 1996. Gene trees, species trees, and systematics: a cladistic perspective. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 27: 423-450. | X | X |
| Brower, A. V. Z., and M. G. Egan. 1997. Cladistics of Heliconius butterflies and relatives (Nymphalidae: Heliconiiti): the phylogenetic position of Eueides based on sequences from mtDNA and a nuclear gene. Proc. R. Soc. London B 264: 969-977. | X | X |
| Brower, A. V. Z., and V. A. Schawaroch. 1996. Three steps of homology assessment. Cladistics 12: 265-272. | X | X |
| Carpenter, J.M.. 1996. Distributional checklist of the species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). Amer. Mus. Novitates 3188: 1-39. | X | X |
| Carpenter, J.M..1997 (1996). Generic classification of the Australian pollen wasps Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69 (4), supplement: 384-400. | X | X |
| Carpenter, J.M.. 1997 (1996). Uninformative bootstrapping. Cladistics 12: 177- 181. | X | X |
| Carpenter, J.M.. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships among European Polistes and the evolution of social parasitism (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 173: 135-161. | X | X |
| Carpenter, J.M., and Grimaldi, D.A., 1997. Social Wasps in Amber. Am. Mus. Novitates 3203: 7pp., 4 figs. | X | 23kb |
| Carpenter, J. M., J. W. Wenzel and J. Kojima. 1996. Synonymy of the genus Occipitalia Richards, 1978, with Clypearia Saussure, 1854 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 5: 157-165. | X | X |
| Collingwood, C.A. and D. Agosti. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15: 300-385. | X | X |
| DeSalle, R., D. Agosti, M. Whiting, B. Perez-Sweeney, J. Remsen, R. Baker, J. Bonacum, and R. Bang. 1996. Crossroads, milestones, and landmarks in insect development and evolution: implications for systematics. Aliso 14(4): 305-321. | X | X |
| DeSalle, R., and V. Birstein. 1996. PCR analysis of black caviar. Nature 381: 197-198. | X | X |
| DeSalle, R. and E. Bonwich. 1996. DNA isolation, manipulation and characterization from old tissues. Genetic Engineering 18: 13-32. | X | X |
| DeSalle, R. and A.V.Z. Brower. 1997. Process partitions, congruence and the independence of characters: inferring relationships among closely related Hawaiian Drosophila from multiple gene regions. Syst. Biol. (in press). | X | X |
| DeSalle, R., A.V.Z. Brower, R. Baker, and J. Remsen. 1997. A hierarchical view of the Hawaiian Drosophilidae (Diptera). Pacific Science 51(4): 462-474. | X | X |
| DeSalle, R., M. Yudell, R. Bang and R. Meier. 1997. The predictive value of Drosophila. Science 275: 1549- 1551. | X | X |
| Farris, J. S., M. Källersjö, V. A. Albert, M. Allard, A. Anderberg, B. Bowditch, C. Bult, J. M. Carpenter, T. M. Crowe, J. De Laet,K Fitzhugh, D. Frost, P. Goloboff, C. J. Humphries, U. Jondelius, D.Judd, P. O. Karis, D. Lipscomb, M. Luckow, D. Mindell, J. Muona, K. Nixon, W. Presch, O. Seberg, M. E. Siddall, L. Struwe, A. Tehler, J. Wenzel, Q. Wheeler and W. Wheeler. 1996 (1995). Explanation. Cladistics 11: 211-218. | X | X |
| Goldstein, P.Z.. 1997. How many things are there? A reply to Oliver and Beattie, Beattie and Oliver, Oliver and Beattie, and Oliver and Beattie. Conservation Biology 11(2): 571-574. | X | X |
| Goldstein, P.Z.. 1997. Arthropod assemblages and the management of sandplain communities on Martha's Vineyard. Pages 217-236 in P.D. Vickery and P.D. Dunwiddie (eds.), Grasslands and Heathlands of Northeastern North America. Lincoln, Mass: Massachusetts Audubon Society. | X | X |
| Grimaldi, D.. 1997. Revision of the bird flies, genus Carnus, and the relationships of carnid genera (Diptera). Amer. Mus. Novitates 3190: 30 pp. | X | X |
| Grimaldi, D.. 1997. A fossil mantis (Insecta: Mantodea) in Cretaceous amber of New Jersey, with comments on the early history of the Dictyoptera. Amer. Mus. Novitates 3204: 11 pp. | X | X |
| Grimaldi, D.A., Agosti, D., and Carpenter, J.M., 1997. New and rediscovered primitive Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Createous Amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic Relationships. Am. Mus. Novitates 3208: 43pp., 24 figs., 1 tab. | X | 130kb |
| Hunt, J.H., R.J. Brodie, T.P. Carithers, P.Z. Goldstein, and D.H.Janzen. 1997. Dry season migration by Costa Rican lowland paper wasps to high elevation cold dormancy sites. Biotropica (In press). | X | X |
| Judd, T. M. and J. M. Carpenter. 1996. Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) found in Michigan. Great Lakes Entomologist 29: 45-46. | X | X |
| Kojima, J. and J. M. Carpenter. 1997. Catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3199: 1- 96. | X | X |
| Legge, J.T., R. Roush, R. DeSalle, A.P. Vogler and B. May. 1996. Genetic criteria for establishing ESUs's in Cryan's buckmoth. Conservation Biology 10: 85-98. | X | X |
| Lewis, R.E. and D. Grimaldi. 1997. A pulicid flea in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Insecta: Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). Amer. Mus. Novitates 3205: 9 pp. | X | X |
| Miller, J. S.. 1996. Phylogeny of the Neotropical moth tribe Josiini (Notodontidae: Dioptinae): a hidden case of Müllerian mimicry. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 118: 1-45 (figs. 1-23). | X | X |
| Miller, J. S., A.V.Z. Brower, and R. DeSalle 1997. Phylogeny of the neotropical moth tribe Josiini (Notodontidae: Dioptinae): Comparing and combining evidence from DNA sequences and morphology. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 60: 297-316. | X | X |
| Moog, J., D. Agosti, T. Drude, and U. Maschwitz. 1997. Flood control by ants: water bailing behavior in the south-east Asian plant ant genus Cladomyrma (Formicidae, Formicinae). Naturwissenschaften 84: 242-245. | X | X |
| Moog, J., L.G. Saw, D. Agosti, I. Hj. Azarae and U. Maschwitz. Host plants of the plant-ant genus Cladomyrma Wheeler in Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Science.(in press) | X | X |
| Nixon, K. C. and J. M. Carpenter 1996. On simultaneous analysis. Cladistics 12: 221-241. | X | X |
| Nixon, K. C. and J. M. Carpenter 1997 (1996). On consensus, collapsibility and clade concordance. Cladistics 12: 305-321. | X | X |
| O'Keefe, S.T. and D. Agosti. A new species of Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Guanacaste, Costa Rica. J. New York Ent. Soc. (in press) | X | X |
| Platnick, N. I. 1997. On some Camillina from southern Africa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). J. Arachnol. 25: 97--98. | X | X |
| Platnick, N. I., Ch. J. Humphries, G. Nelson, and D. M. Williams 1997. Is Farris optimization perfect?: Three-taxon statements and multiple branching. Cladistics 12: 243--252. | X | X |
| Remsen, J. and R. DeSalle 1997. Character congruence of multiple data partitions and the origin of the Hawaiian Drosophilidae. Mol. Phyl. Evol. (in press). | X | X |
| Rosenbaum, H., P. Walsh, Y. Razafindrakoto, M. Vely and R. DeSalle 1997. First description of a hunchback whale wintering ground in Baie d'Antongil, Madagascar. Conservation Biology 11: 312-314. | X | X |
| Rosenbaum, H. C., M. G. Egan, P. J. Clapham, R. L. Brownell Jr. and R. DeSalle. 1997. An effective method for isolating DNA from historical specimens of baleen. Molecular Ecology 6: 677-681. | X | X |
| Rozen, J.G., Jr. 1996. First and last larval instars of the parasitic bee Hexepeolus rhodogyne (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Nomadinae). Mem. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 17: 188--193. | X | X |
| Rozen, J.G., Jr. 1996. Phylogenetic analysis of the cleptoparasitic bees belonging to the Nomadinae based on mature larvae (Apoidea: Apidae). Am. Mus. Novitates 3180: 39 pp. | X | X |
| Rozen, J.G., Jr. 1997. A new species of the bee Heterosarus from Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: panurginae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 69 suppl.: 346-352. | X | X |
| Rozen, J.G., Jr., and G.C. Eickwort. 1997. "The Entomological Evidence" in Special Series: Papers from a Symposium on Forensic Chemistry, Soil Analysis, Entomology, Botany, Palynology and Other Aspects of Non- Genetic Marker Biology, Alan Graham, Ed. J. Forensic Sci. 42: 394-397. | X | X |
| Rozen, J.G., Jr., A. Roig-Alsina, and B.A. Alexander. 1997. The cleptoparasitic bee genus Rhopalolemma, with reference to other Nomadinae (Apidae) and biology of its host Protodufourea (Halictidae: Rophitinae). Am. Mus. Novitates 3194: 28 pp. | X | X |
| Stonedahl, G. M., J.D. Lattin, and V. Razafimahatratra 1997. Review of Eurychilopterella complex of genera, including the description of a new genus from Mexico (Heteroptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae). Am. Mus. Novitates 3198: 33pp. 57 figs. | X | X |
| Tigar, B.J., C.A. Collingwood, and D. Agosti. 1997. Introduced ants in the United Arab Emirates. J. Arid Environ. 37: 505-512. | X | X |
| Vogler, A.P. and P.Z. Goldstein. 1997. Adaptation, cladogenesis, and the evolution of habitat association in North American tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 353-373 in T. Givnish and K. Sytsma (eds.), Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation. Cambridge University Press. | X | X |
| Wang, X. P. (Sponsor: N. I. Platnick). 1997. On three Agelena species from China (Araneae, Agelenidae). Bull. Br. Arachnol. Soc. 10: 253--256. | X | X |
| Whiting, M. F., J. M. Carpenter, Q. D. Wheeler and W. C. Wheeler. 1997. The Strepsiptera problem: Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Biology 46: 1-68. | X | X |
| Wray, C., D. Jacobs, R. Kostriken, A. Vogler, R. Baker and R. DeSalle. 1996. Homologues of the engrailed gene from five Molluscan Classes. FEBS Letters 365: 761-774. | X | X |
| Wray, C.G., N.H. Landman, W.B. Saunders, and J. Bonacum. 1996. Genetic divergence and geographic diversification in nautilus. Paleobiology 21: 22-228. | X | X |
Grimaldi, D.A., Agosti, D., and Carpenter, J.M., 1997. New and rediscovered primitive Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Createous Amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic Relationships. Am. Mus. Novitates 3208: 43pp., 24 figs., 1 tab.
All Cretaceous records of ants are reviewed, and evidence originally given for their placement is evaluated. Cretaceous Formicoidea preserved in rocks lack preservation of critical ant synapomorphies like the metapleural gland, which are preserved in specimens in amber. For this reason, the Armaniidae Dlussky, from the Cretaceous of Russia, are placed here as Formicoidea incertae sedis, not in the Formicidae proper. The oldest amber with ants is from New Jersey.
Seven complete and partial specimens of Formicidae, recently discovered in Turonian (92 Ma) amber from central New Jersey, are described and discussed. The specimens consist of four males and three workers. One complete and well preserved worker is Sphecomyrma freyi Wilson and Brown 1967, known previously from two workers in a piece of Turonian amber from Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey. Well preserved in the new worker are external and even some internal features of the metapleural gland -- a definitive formicid synapomorphy -- which are described in detail for the first time. This specimen is designated as a neotype to replace the disintegrated holotype of this species. One complete male specimen is tentatively assigned to Sphecomyrma, which would be the first known male of the genus. One complete and one partial male, both from the same piece of amber, are a new, plesiomorphic species of Baikuris Dlussky (Baikuris casei, n.sp.), the genus previously known only from upper Cretaceous (Santonian) amber of Taymyr, northern Siberia. Two workers represent a new genus and species of Cretaceous Formicidae, Brownimecia clavata n. gen., n. sp. based on distinctively clubbed antennae, proportions of the antennal articles, and thin mandibles that lack teeth and extensively cross, and a ponerine-like constriction between abdominal segments III and IV (gaster segments I and II). Brownimecia is more closely related to extant Formicidae than are Sphecomyrminae, the genus apparently being the earliest known member of the extant subfamily Ponerinae. The fourth male belongs to a third genus, undescribed. These are the oldest definitive ants.
Composition, monophyly, and systematic position of the subfamily Sphecomyrminae are discussed. Modifications were made to the data of Baroni Urbani et al. 1992 and reanalyses were made of the basal relationships of the Formicidae including Sphecomyrma and Brownimecia. Discrepencies with the cladograms of Baroni Urbani et al. (1992) are discussed. Including into the cladistic analysis the fossil taxon Formiciinae Lutz (compressed remains from the Eocene of Germany), as done by Baroni Urbani et al., imparts too many missing values for meaningful analysis. Sphecomyrma, not discussed by Baroni Urbani et al., retains its basal position in the Formicidae in the present analysis. Discovery of new and exclusively primitive ants in upper Cretaceous ambers indicates an origin of the ants probably in the lowermost Cretaceous, but no older, contrary to a recent molecular hypothesis.