An ant scientist's picnic: The highly diverse ant fauna of the Philippines

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 10:31 in Biology & Nature

Intensive field work by researchers David General of the Palawan State University, The Philippines and Gary Alpert of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University has led to the discovery of nine genera of ants that had never been recorded before in the Philippines. Another two new genera were discovered by other researchers in a remote mountain region. The study was published as the 200th jubilee issue of the open access journal Zookeys.

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