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HYMENOPTERA, Formicoidea -- Members now grouped with Vespoidea One family, the Formicidae, is included in this
superfamily. There is a great deal of
biological diversity among ants. Some
feed on fungus, plant nectaries, honeydew, etc., while others are exclusively
entomophagous. Entomophagous species
are predators of a wide range of insects and all host stages thereof. Ants have been employed successfully in
biological control (see below), but many species are pestiferous (please
refer to <formicid.htm> for further
details). = = = = = = = = = = = = = = References: Please refer to
<biology.ref.htm>, [Additional references may be found at: MELVYL
Library] Bolton, Barry. 1995.
A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard
University Press. Borror DJ,
C. A. Triplehorn & D. M.
Delong. 1989. Introduction to the Study of Insects, 6th Edition.
Saunders College Publishing. Hölldobler B & E. O. Wilson. 1990. The Ants. Harvard University
Press. Hölldobler B & E. O. Wilson. 1990. The Ants. Harvard University
Press. Hölldobler B & E. O. Wilson. 1998. Journey to the Ants: A Story of
Scientific Exploration. Belknap Press. Hölldobler B & E. O. Wilson. 2009. The Superorganism:
The Beauty, Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies. Norton &
Co.. Pilgrim, E.
M., C. D. Von Dohlen & J. P. Pitts.
2008. Molecular phylogenetics
of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of
its component families and subfamilies. Zoologica scripta, 37:
539-560. Wilson, E. O. & W. L. Brown. 1956.
New parasitic ants of the genus Kyidris, with notes on ecology
and behavior. Ins. Sociaux
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