ADVANCES IN ANT SYSTEMATICS, a festschrift including 26 papers by 33 authors from around the World. Now available, published in the Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute Vol. 80 and includes the following titles:

A review of the ant genus Metapone from Madagascar by Gary Alpert

Ant diversity in Arid Australia: a systematic review by Alan Andersen

How to conduct large taxonomic revisions in Formicidae by Barry Bolton

A phylogenetic hypothesis for the Trachymyrmex species groups, and the transition from fungus-growing to leaf-cutting in the Attini by C.R.F. Brandão and A Mayhé-Nunes

A new genus of ant from the southwestern United States by Stefan P. Cover and Mark Deyrup

A cryptic species of Crematogaster from the pinelands of the southeastern United States by Mark Deyrup and Stefan P. Cover

Ants of El Hierro, Canary Islands by Xavier Espadaler

Two new South American species of Monomorium Mayr with taxonomic notes on the genus by Fernando Fernandez

A new species of Probolomyrmex from Madagascar by Brian Fisher

Myrmica punctiventris and M. crassirugis species groups in the Nearctic Region by André Francoeur

Revision of the subgenus Aulacomyrma Emery of the genus Polyrhachis F. Smith, with descriptions of new species by Rudolph J. Kohout

Identification of the species of Gnamptogenys Roger in the Americas by John E. Lattke, Fernando Fernández C., and Edgard E. Palacio

A taxonomic review of the genus Wasmannia by John T. Longino and Fernando Fernández

A key to Camponotus Mayr of Australia by Archie MacArthur

Revision of the ant genus Perissomyrmex with notes on the phylogeny of the tribe Myrmecinini by Kazuo Ogata and Hirofumi Okido

Studies on Australian Meranoplus: the Meranoplus diversus species group by Stefan Schödl

The fungus-growing ant genus Apterostigma in Dominican amber by Ted Schulz

Revision of the ant genus Mayriella by Steven O. Shattuck and Natalie J. Barnett

New synonymy, new species, new keys to Neivamyrmex army ants of the United States by Gordon C Snelling and Roy R. Snelling

Review of the Afrotropical arboreal ant genus Axinidris by Roy R. Snelling

Bloody funny wasps! Speculation on the evolution of eusociality in ants by Robert W. Taylor

A revision of the Nearctic endemic Formica pallidefulva group by James C. Trager, Joe A. MacGown, and Matthew D. Trager

The ant genus Leptanilloides: discovery of the male and evaluation of phylogenetic relationships base on DNA sequence data by Philip S. Ward

Pachycondyla nigrita and its related species in Southeast Asia by Seiki Yamane

A new sibling species of the genus Strumigenys, with a redefinition of S. lewisi Cameron by Masashi Yoshimura and K. Onoyama

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