New Book on ants

     The Edwin Mellen Press has just published "The Ants of New Mexico" by William and Emma Mackay. It includes 227 taxa that occur in New Mexico, together with another 66 that probably occur in the state, for a total of 293 taxa, approximately ½ of the taxa that occur in the United States. The book would serve for the identification of ants from eastern Arizona, southern Colorado, western Texas and northern Chihuahua, and would be useful for the identification of ants throughout the United States and northern Mexico. Keys to the species are included for all of the genera, as well as distribution maps, discussions of the habitats and natural history of each species. The book is written with a minimum of jargon, to allow nearly any biologist to identity ants.
      The subfamilies and genera include: PONERINAE: Amblyopone, Hypoponera, Odontomachus, CERAPACHYINAE: Acanthostichus, Cerapachys, PSEUDOMYRMECINAE: Pseudomyrmex, ECITONINAE: Neivamyrmex, MYRMICINAE: Aphaenogaster, Cephalotes, Crematogaster, Cyphomyrmex, Formicoxenus, Leptothorax, Manica, Monomorium, Myrmecina, Myrmica, Pheidole, Pogonomyrmex, Rogeria, Solenopsis, Stenamma, Strumigenys, Tetramorium, Trachymyrmex, Tranopelta, DOLICHODERINAE: Dorymyrmex, Forelius, Linepithema, Liometopum, Tapinoma, FORMICINAE: Acanthomyops, Brachymyrmex, Camponotus, Formica, Lasius, Myrmecocystus, Paratrechina, Polyergus and Prenolepis.
      ISBN 0-7734-6884-6, hardcover, acid free paper, 408 pp., $129.95, The Edwin Mellen Press, PO Box 450, Lewiston, NY 14092-0450, www.mellenpress.com