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Azteca of Costa Rica: Literature Cited

Ayala, F.J., Wetterer, J.K., Longino, J.T. & Hartl, D.L. (1996) Molecular phylogeny of Azteca ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the colonization of Cecropia trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 5, 423-428.

Benson, W.W. (1985) Amazon ant-plants. In: Prance, G.T. & Lovejoy, T.E. (Eds.) Key environments: Amazonia. Pergamon Press, London, pp. 239-266.

Bequaert, J. (1922) Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. IV. Ants in their diverse relations to the plant world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 45, 333-583.

Brthes, J. (1914) Note sur quelques DolichodŽrines argentines. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires, 26, 93-96.

Chapman, R.F. (1982) The Insects, Structure and Function. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 919 pp.

Corbara, B., Dejean, A. & Orivel, J. (1999) Les "jardins de fourmis," une association plantes-fourmis originale. AnnŽe Biologique, 38, 73-89.

Davidson, D.W. (1988) Ecological studies of neotropical ant gardens. Ecology, 69, 1138-1152.

Davidson, D.W., Cook, S.C., Snelling, R.R. & Chua, T.H. (2003) Explaining the abundance of ants in lowland tropical rainforest canopies. Science, 300, 969-972.

Emery, C. (1893) Studio monografico sul genere Azteca Forel. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, (5)3, 119-152.

Emery, C. (1896a) Formiche raccolte dal dott. E. Festa nei pressi del golfo di Darien. Bollettino del Museo di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparatadella Reale Universitˆ di Torino, 11, 1-4.

Emery, C. (1896b) Alcune forme nuove del genere Azteca For. e note biologiche. Bollettino del Museo di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparatadella Reale Universitˆ di Torino, 11, 1-7.

Emery, C. (1913 ["1912"]) Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum, 137, 1-50.

Fisher, B.L. (1992) Facultative ant association benefits a neotropical orchid. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 8, 109-114.

Forel, A. (1878) ƒtudes myrmŽcologiques en 1878 (premire partie) avec l'anatomie du gŽsier des fourmis. Bulletin de la SociŽtŽ Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, 15, 337-392.

Forel, A. (1899) Formicidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 3, 1-160.

Forel, A. (1904a) Miscellanea myrmŽcologiques. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 12, 1-52.

Forel, A. (1904b) In und mit Pflanzen lebende Ameisen aus dem Amazonas-Gebiet und aus Peru, gesammelt von Herrn E. Ule. Zoologische JahrbŸcher. Abtheilung fŸr Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 20, 677-707.

Forel, A. (1906) Fourmis nŽotropiques nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la SociŽtŽ Entomologique de Belgique, 50, 225-249.

Forel, A. (1908a) Fourmis de Costa-Rica rŽcoltŽes par M. Paul Biolley. Bulletin de la SociŽtŽ Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, 44, 35-72.

Forel, A. (1908b) Ameisen aus Sao Paulo (Brasilien), Paraguay etc. gesammelt von Prof. Herm. v. Ihering, Dr. Lutz, Dr. Fiebrig, etc. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Kšniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 58, 340-418.

Forel, A. (1909) Ameisen aus Guatemala usw., Paraguay und Argentinien (Hym.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1909, 239-269.

Forel, A. (1912) Formicides nŽotropiques. Part V. 4me sous-famille Dolichoderinae Forel. MŽmoires de la SociŽtŽ Entomologique de Belgique, 20, 33-58.

Forel, A. (1914) Formicides d'Afrique et d'AmŽrique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la SociŽtŽ Vaudoise des Sciences naturelles, 50, 211-288.

Forel, A. (1921 ("1920")) Fourmis trouvŽes dans des galles de Cordia et d'Agonandra, etc. Bulletin de la SociŽtŽ Botanique de Genve, (2)12, 201-208.

Forel, A. (1928) The social world of the ants. Putnam's Sons, London, xlv + 551; xx + 445 pp.

Gallardo, A. (1916) Las hormigas de la Repœblica Argentina: Subfamilia Dolichoderinas. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires, 28, 1-130.

Harada, A. Y. (1989) Estrutura de colonias de Azteca alfari Emery (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dolichoderinae) em plantas de Cecropia concolor (Moraceae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 33, 169-182.

Hšlldobler, B. & Wilson, E.O. (1990) The Ants. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Johnson, C., Agosti, D., Delabie, J.H., Dumpert, K., Williams, D.J., von Tschirnhaus, M. & Maschwitz, U. (2001) Acropyga and Azteca ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with scale insects (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea): 20 million years of intimate symbiosis. American Museum Novitates, 3335, 1-18.

Kaufmann, E. & Maschwitz, U. (2006) Ant-gardens of tropical Asian rainforests. Naturwissenschaften, 93, 216-227.

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Longino, J.T. (1986) Ants provide substrate for epiphytes. Selbyana, 9, 100-103.

Longino, J.T. (1989a) Taxonomy of the Cecropia-inhabiting ants in the Azteca alfari species group: evidence for two broadly sympatric species. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County), 412, 1-16.

Longino, J.T. (1989b) Geographic variation and community structure in an ant-plant mutualism: Azteca and Cecropia in Costa Rica. Biotropica, 21, 126-132.

Longino, J.T. (1991a) Azteca ants in Cecropia trees: taxonomy, colony structure, and behavior. In: Huxley, C. & Cutler, D. (Eds.) Ant-Plant Interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 271-288.

Longino, J.T. (1991b) Taxonomy of the Cecropia-inhabiting Azteca ants. Journal of Natural History, 25, 1571-1602.

Longino, J.T. (1996) Taxonomic characterization of some live-stem inhabiting Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica, with special reference to the ants of Cordia (Boraginaceae) and Triplaris (Polygonaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 5, 131-156.

Longino, J.T. (2007) A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group. Zootaxa 1491:1-63.

Mann, W.M. (1916) The ants of Brazil. (The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 60, 399-490.

Mayr, G. (1866) Myrmecologische BeitrŠge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse Abteilung I, 53, 484-517.

Mayr, G. (1878 ("1877")) Formiciden gesammelt in Brasilien von Professor Trail. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Kšniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 27, 867-878.

MŸller, F. (1876) Ueber das Haarkissen am Blattstiel der Imbauba (Cecropia), das GemŸsebeet der Imbauba-Ameise. Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Naturwissenschaft, 10, 281-286.

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Roger, J. (1863) Die neu aufgefŸhrten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses nebst ErgŠnzung einiger frŸher gegebenen Beschreibungen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 7, 131-214.

Santschi, F. (1933) Fourmis de la RŽpublique Argentine en particulier du territoire de Misiones. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina (Buenos Aires), 116, 105-124.

Shattuck, S.O. (1992) Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology, 21, 1-181.

Skwarra, E. (1934) Okologie der Lebensgemeinschaften mexikanischer Ameisenpflanzen. Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Okologie der Tiere, 29, 306-373.

Smith, F. (1862) Descriptions of new species of aculeate Hymenoptera, collected at Panama by R. W. Stretch, Esq., with a list of described species, and the various localities where they have previously occurred. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, (3)1, 29-44.

Stitz, H. (1937) Einige Ameisen aus Mexiko. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1937, 132-136.

Tillberg, C.V. (2004) Friend or foe? A behavioral and stable isotopic investigation of an ant-plant symbiosis. Oecologia (Berlin), 140, 506-515.

Trager, M.D. & Bruna, E.M. (2006) Effects of plant age, experimental nutrient addition and ant occupancy on herbivory in a neotropical myrmecophyte. Journal of Ecology, 94, 1156-1163.

Ule, E. (1901) Ameisengarten im Amazonasgebiet. Engler's Botanische Jahrbucher fŸr Systematik, Beiblatt, 68, 45-52.

Wheeler, D.E. (1986) Polymorphism and division of labor in Azteca chartifex laticeps (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 59, 542-548.

Wheeler, W.M. (1921) A new case of parabiosis and the "ant gardens" of British Guiana. Ecology, 2, 89-103.

Wheeler, W.M. (1942) Studies of neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 90, 1-262.

Wheeler, W.M. & Bequaert, J.C. (1929) Amazonian myrmecophytes and their ants. Zoologischer Anzeiger (Leipzig), 82, 10-39.


Page author: John T. Longino longinoj@evergreen.edu


Date of this version: 5 June 2007.
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