Notes On Ant Larvae 1989-1991

Authors

George C. Wheeler, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL
Jeanette Wheeler, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

September 1991

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 5, No. 3-4, September-December 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Wheeler and Wheeler.

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

In 1976 we published "Ant Larvae: Review and Synthesis," which we regarded as a summary of our life-time of research. During the following years so many new larvae were added to our collection and so much was published about ant larvae that we decided another general treatment was desirable; so in 1986 we published a "Ten-Year Supplement" to include additions and revisions to our Memoir. In 1987 and 1988 additional material warranted a supplement to the "l0-year Supplement" in 1989a. This article is the third supplement to the Memoir.

In the supplement, two genera are characterized, one generic characterization is revised, and references in the literature are increased by 43. Changes in our Memoir (1976) and its supplements (1986, 1989a) are noted.