@article {20, title = {Recent advances in army ant biology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) }, journal = {Myrmecological News}, volume = {12}, year = {2009}, pages = {51-65}, abstract = {

Army ants are dominant social hunters of invertebrates and thereby play an integral role in tropical ecosystems. They\ are defined by a suite of evolutionarily interrelated physiological, behavioural and morphological traits, the army ant adaptive syndrome: they are obligate group predators, they frequently relocate their nests, and their permanently wingless queens found new colonies accompanied by workers. If this functional definition is applied rather than a taxonomic\  one, army ants have evolved repeatedly in distantly related groups of ants. In addition, army ants typically have extremely male-biased numerical sex-ratios, and the queens of the studied species are inseminated by many males. The\ aim of this review is to provide a synthesis of the most recent work on army ant biology, to outline an evolutionary scenario that connects the different aspects of army ant life-history, and to give some directions for future research.\ 

}, keywords = {Aenictinae, colony fission, Dorylinae, dorylomorph section, Ecitoninae, group predation, nomadism, review.}, author = {Daniel J.C. KRONAUER} } @article {7, title = {ON THE TAXONOMY OF THE WEST PALAEARCTIC AENICTINAE ANTS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)}, journal = {ANNALES ZOOLOGICI}, volume = {54}, year = {2004}, pages = {361-364}, abstract = {

The types of several Aenictus species are studied, and differences between
A. rhodiensis Menozzi and related species, A. dlusskyi Arnoldi and A. vaucheri Emery
shown. A. maroccanus Santschi is excluded from the genus Aenictus Shuchard, 1840.
A first record of Aenictus rhodiensis from Turkey is reported.

}, keywords = {Aenictinae, Ants, Ecitoninae, faunistic, Palaearctic Region., taxonomy}, author = {NIHAT AKTA{\c C} and ALEXANDER G. RADCHENKO and KADRI KIRAN} }