Rediscovery of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant "Mycetosoritis" asper Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of agriculture in ants

We report the rediscovery of the exceedingly rarely collected and enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis asper. Since the description of the type specimen in 1887, only four additional specimens are known to have been added to the world's insect collections. Its biology is entirely...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2017-05, Vol.12 (5), p.e0176498-e0176498
Hauptverfasser:	Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Ješovnik, Ana, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L, Bacci, Jr, Mauricio, Schultz, Ted R
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aberration Agricultural practices Agriculture Agronomy Animals Ants Ants - classification Bacteria Behavior, Animal - physiology Biology Biology and Life Sciences Brazil Colleges & universities Colonies Computer and Information Sciences Construction Crypts Cyphomyrmex strigatus Demographics Deoxyribonucleic acid Diagnosis Divergence DNA Dust Evolution Exocrine glands Fauna Fungi Genera Glands Group dynamics Historical account Hymenoptera Insects Larvae Medicine and Health Sciences Morphology Mycetophylax asper Mycetosoritis aspera Natural history New records New species Nucleotide sequence Parasitism People and places Phylogenetics Phylogeny Pine trees Plantations Reconstruction Silviculture Symbiosis Taxonomy Taxonomy (Biology) Topology Workers (insect caste)
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