Fossils provide unique opportunity to understand the tempo and mode of evolution and are
essential for modeling the history of lineage diversification. Here, we interrogate the …

Within the Formicidae, the higher classification of nearly all subfamilies has been recently
revised given the findings of molecular phylogenetics. Here, we integrate morphology and …

We investigated phylogenetic relationships among the'primitive'Australian ant genera
Myrmecia and Nothomyrmecia (stat. rev.) and the Baltic amber fossil genus Prionomyrmex …

The current state of ant systematics is reviewed. In recent years substantial progress has
been made in identifying the major clades of ants and the relationships among them. Earlier …

The importance of taxon sampling in phylogenetic accuracy is a topic of active debate. We
investigated the role of taxon sampling in causing incongruent results between two recent …

We investigate the species-level taxonomy and evolutionary history of Nearctic ants in the
Crematogaster scutellaris group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), drawing on evidence from …

The classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae is revised to reflect findings from a recent
molecular phylogenetic study and complementary morphological investigations. The …

Abstract Background Temnothorax (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) is a diverse genus of ants
found in a broad spectrum of ecosystems across the northern hemisphere. These diminutive …

This study unravels the evolution and biogeographic history of the globally distributed ant
genus Crematogaster on the basis of a molecular phylogeny, reconstructed from five nuclear …

Ants are the world's most diverse and ecologically dominant eusocial organisms. Resolving
the phylogeny and timescale for major ant lineages is vital to understanding how they …