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List of works by Philip S. Ward

A hymenopterists’ guide to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: utility, clarification, and future directions

scientific article

A review of the Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus and Pseudomyrmex goeldii species groups: acacia-ants and relatives (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article (publication date: 6 February 2017)

A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex

scientific article

A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2005)

ALLOZYME VARIATION, COLONY STRUCTURE AND GENETIC RELATEDNESS IN THE PRIMITIVE ANT NOTHOMYRMECIA MACROPS CLARK (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)

scientific article (publication date: August 1981)

ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America

scientific article published in 2021

Adetomyrma, an enigmatic new ant genus from Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and its implications for ant phylogeny

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward published 2 January 2008 in Systematic Entomology

Ant soldiers are not modified queens

scientific article published in Nature

Ant-tended scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccidae: Myzolecanium) within lowland rain forest trees in Papua New Guinea

scholarly article by Penny J. Gullan et al published February 1993 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Ants

scientific article published in March 2006

Ants of the Genus Pseudomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) From Dominican Amber, With a Synopsis of the Extant Antillean Species

scientific article published in 1992

Biogeography and endemism of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Baja California, Mexico: afirst overview

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Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Ecology and Life History of the Rhytidoponera Impressa Group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) I. Habitats, Nest Sites, and Foraging Behavior

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward published 1981 in Psyche

Energy gradients and the geographic distribution of local ant diversity

scientific article published on 4 June 2004

Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants

scientific article

How to prevent cheating: a digestive specialization ties mutualistic plant-ants to their ant-plant partners

scientific article published on 2 January 2009

Insect diversity over 36 years at a protected Sierra Nevada (California) site: towards an evaluation of the insect apocalypse hypothesis

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Long-term record of Argentine ant invasions reveals enduring ecological impacts

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Macroevolutionary assembly of ant/plant symbioses: Pseudomyrmex ants and their ant-housing plants in the Neotropics

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Mesic Elements in the Western Nearctic Ant Fauna: Taxonomic and Biological Notes on Amblyopone, Proceratium, and Smithistruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Morphological phylogeny of army ants and other dorylomorphs (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scholarly article by Seán G. Brady & Philip S. Ward published 28 February 2005 in Systematic Entomology

One nutritional symbiosis begat another: phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

scientific article

Paleotropical Diversification Dominates the Evolution of the Hyperdiverse Ant Tribe Crematogastrini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scholarly article by Bonnie B Blaimer et al published 1 September 2018 in Insect Systematics and Diversity

Phylogenetic classifications are informative, stable, and pragmatic: the case for monophyletic taxa

scientific article

Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Stinging Wasps and the Origins of Ants and Bees

scientific article

Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants

scientific article

Phylogenomics resolves evolutionary relationships among ants, bees, and wasps

scientific article

Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference

scientific article

Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera : Formicidae)

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward & Seán G. Brady published 2003 in Invertebrate Systematics

Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader

scientific article

Species Paraphyly and Social Parasitism: Phylogenomics, Morphology, and Geography Clarify the Evolution of the Pseudomyrmex elongatulus Group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Mesoamerican Ant Clade

scholarly article published in 2022

Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants

scientific article (publication date: August 1999)

Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward & Brian Fisher published 2 June 2016 in Systematic Entomology

Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera)

scientific article published in March 2022

Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions

scholarly article

The Phylogeny and Evolution of Ants

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward published 23 November 2014 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

The acacia ants revisited: convergent evolution and biogeographic context in an iconic ant/plant mutualism.

scientific article

The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species

scientific article published on 23 February 2022

The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids

scientific article (publication date: October 1990)

The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward & Douglas A. Downie published 9 December 2004 in Systematic Entomology

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward et al published 23 July 2014 in Systematic Entomology

The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

scientific article published in 2014

The role of opportunity in the unintentional introduction of nonnative ants

scientific article