Remember Martialis heureka? Antweb.org has just posted some new high-res images of the specimen:
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A few years ago I needed to image some ants for a short taxonomic paper. Lacking a decent specimen imaging system (like Entovision), I decided to snap the photos at home using my standard macro gear: a dSLR with the Canon MP-E lens. The images turned out fine and were published in Zootaxa with…
Benoit Guenard has been hard at work the past couple years compiling broad-scale distribution data for all the world's ants, and his efforts are now online. Here they are- global range maps for all the ant genera:
http://www.antmacroecology.org/ant_genera/index.html
These maps will be a very…
Martialis heureka Rabeling & Verhaagh 2008
drawing by the inimitable Barrett Klein for PNAS
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Another year passes. The economy is in the toilet. Violence spreads in the middle east. In these trying times, one question must weigh on the minds of concerned citizens: "What's happening in world of ant science?"
Of course. Here are the myrmecological highlights of 2008:
The Demise of…
Is it bad that they posted the exact location it was found too? I know the location of some ants are kept secrete for ... reasons that escape me.
Yeah, I thought about that too. The label information is not exact, though, the coordinates are given only to the nearest degree. I suspect the point on the map reflects the rounding error on the label, and the actual site is somewhere within a few kilometers.