Product description

Publishing house: Harvard University Press
Author: Barry Bolton
Pages: 512
years of publication: in 1995
ISBN: 978-0674615144

Description: Barry Bolton writes, and here are all the names, antique and modern, of all the ants that are or ever were from the arctic to the tropical, the fossilized to the living, the mislabelled to the newly christened members for the family Formicidae. For every name that has ever been applied to ants, the book supplies a history and an account of current usage, together with a fully documented indication of the present day classification. It's comprehensive bibliography provides references to original description, homonymy, synonymy, changes in rank, status and availability, and alterations in generic status. Organized by family group, genus group and species group, this meticulously detailed but easily used volume is the ultimate resource for myrmecology. Along with Bolton's "Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World", it should be a useful reference for anyone, expert or amateur, with an interest in ants.