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Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S.; Taylor, B. 2012. A new ant species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with a revised key to the Arabian species. PLoS ONE 7 (2):e30811. 10.1371/journal.pone.0030811 PDF

Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B. L. 2012a. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7 (3):e33325. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 PDF

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Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2013a. How much variation can one ant species hold? Species delimitation in the Crematogaster kelleri-group in Madagascar. PLoS ONE 8 (7):e68082. 10.1371/journal.pone.0068082 PDF

Narendra, A.; Alkaladi, A.; Raderschall, C. A.; Robson, S. K. A.; Ribi, W. A. 2013. Compound eye adaptations for diurnal and nocturnal lifestyle in the intertidal ant, Polyrhachis sakalava. PLoS ONE 8:e76015. 10.1371/journal.pone.0076015 PDF

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Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2014. A diverse ant fauna from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 9 (4):e93627. 10.1371/journal.pone.0093627 PDF

Endlein, T.; Federle, W. 2015. On heels and toes: how ants climb with adhesive pads and tarsal friction hair arrays. PLoS ONE 10:e0141269. 10.1371/journal.pone.0141269 PDF

Notes: Oecophylla smaragdina

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Heinze, J.; Buschinger, A.; Poettinger, T.; Suefuji, M. 2015. Multiple convergent origins of workerlessness and inbreeding in the socially parasitic ant genus Myrmoxenus. PLoS ONE 10(7):e0131023. PDF

Csősz, S.; Fisher, B. L. 2016b. Toward objective, morphology-based taxonomy: a case study on the Malagasy Nesomyrmex sikorai species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 11 (4):31 pp. e0152454. 10.1371/journal.pone.0152454 PDF

Sarnat, E. M.; Fischer, G.; Economo, E. P. 2016. Inordinate spinescence: taxonomic revision and microtomography of the Pheidole cervicornis species group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). PLoS ONE 11 (7):24 pp. e0156709. 10.1371/journal.pone.0156709 PDF

Fischer, G.; Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. Revision and microtomography of the Pheidole knowlesi group, an endemic ant radiation in Fiji (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) Myrmicinae. PLoS ONE 11 (7):41 pp. e0158544. 10.1371/journal.pone.0158544 PDF

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Notes: Mycetosoritis Cyphomyrmex Mycetophylax

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